Recreation Club Compendium 28 CHAPTER-VII
RECREATION CLUBS
- Government’s policy is to encourage the formation of recreation clubs with the objective of developing the spirit of social service among the members and catering to their literary and recreational needs through cultural and sports programmes, etc.
- Currently, staff/recreation clubs are functioning in many Ministries/Departments. These clubs provide facilities for indoor and outdoor games, sports, and other organized welfare activities. The main sources of income for these clubs are grant-in-aid from the Government and membership fees. Such grant-in-aid in favor of Recreation Clubs is sanctioned by the Ministry/Department concerned.
(O.M. No. 1/1/80-Welfare dated 24th July 1980, Department of Personnel & Training) (Annexure XXXIII).
3.1 Grants-in-aid to the Recreation clubs are regulated as follows:
(i) The grant-in-aid will be admissible based on the total strength, including gazetted officers, subject to clause (b), borne on the regular strength of an organization, i.e., Ministry/Department, etc., and its attached and subordinate offices, and such statutory bodies whose budget forms part of the Consolidated Fund of India, regardless of whether any individual is a member of the staff club or not.
(ii) Grant-in-aid in respect of gazetted officers will be admissible only to Ministries/Departments where membership of the recreation club is open to such officers.
(O.M. No. 24/2/62-Welfare, dated 12/10/1962, Ministry of Home Affairs) (Annexure XXXIV).
Notes:
- Categories of staff not on the regular strength of an organization (e.g., staff paid from contingencies, work-charged staff) will not be included.
- Categories of staff eligible for similar concessions under other rules or statutory provisions (e.g., industrial workers) are not covered by these orders.
3.2 Amount of grant-in-aid:
The grant-in-aid to Recreation Clubs is admissible at the following rates from the financial year 1999-2000:
(i) Grant-in-aid at the rate of Rs. 10/- per head per annum as before.
(ii) An additional grant-in-aid, subject to a maximum of Rs. 15 per head per annum, may be given as a matching grant, as opposed to the existing rate of Rs. 5/- per head per annum.
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