Transport Allowance calculator

This calculator works out your monthly Transport Allowance. Transport Allowance is a fixed amount set by your pay Level and your city, paid to meet the cost of commuting, and dearness allowance is added on it. So the figure that reaches your salary is the base rate raised by the current DA. Choose your Level, place, and the DA rate below; the total updates as you type. The rate table and a worked example follow.

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Your allowance at a glance

The rates

Transport Allowance under the 7th Central Pay Commission is a fixed monthly amount by pay-Level band and city class, set by Department of Expenditure Office Memorandum No. 21/5/2017-E.II(B) dated 7 July 2017.

Each figure is the base amount, on which dearness allowance is then paid. There are two special provisions. Employees in Level 1 and 2 who draw a basic pay of Rs. 24,200 or more are paid at the Level 3-to-8 rate, that is Rs. 3,600 or Rs. 1,800, under the modification of 2 August 2017. And officers in Level 14 and above who are entitled to a government car may opt, in lieu of the car, for Transport Allowance of Rs. 15,750 a month plus DA.

Dearness allowance on the allowance

Transport Allowance is one of the few allowances that carries dearness allowance. The governing order states each rate as the amount plus DA thereon, so the amount in hand is:

Transport Allowance in hand = base rate x (1 + DA rate)

The dearness allowance for central government employees is 60 per cent with effect from 1 January 2026, notified by Department of Expenditure OM No. 1/1(i)/2026-E.II(B) dated 22 April 2026, and it rises with each half-yearly DA order. So a base of Rs. 3,600 becomes Rs. 5,760 a month at 60 per cent DA, and it will rise as the DA does. House rent allowance, by contrast, does not draw DA.

The higher-TPTA cities

The higher rate applies in nineteen classified urban agglomerations, the erstwhile A-1 and A cities: Hyderabad, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Surat, Bengaluru, Kochi, Kozhikode, Bhopal, Indore, Greater Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Jaipur, Chennai, Coimbatore, Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Lucknow, and Patna, each as an urban agglomeration. Every other place draws the lower rate. The list is set in the annexure to the 7 July 2017 order and has not changed.

Disabled employees

An employee who is blind or orthopaedically handicapped draws Transport Allowance at double the normal rate, subject to a minimum of Rs. 2,250 a month plus DA, under the compendium order of 15 September 2022, reissued on 29 July 2025. So a Level 2 employee at another place, whose normal rate is Rs. 900, draws double, Rs. 1,800, which is below the Rs. 2,250 floor, so the allowance is fixed at Rs. 2,250 plus DA. The concession is admissible on a certificate of disability from a competent medical authority, and it is paid regardless of whether the employee lives within the office campus.

A worked example

Take an employee in Level 10 posted in Delhi, a higher-TPTA city. The base Transport Allowance is Rs. 7,200. At the current dearness allowance of 60 per cent, the DA on it is Rs. 4,320, so the amount in hand is Rs. 11,520 a month. An employee in Level 5 posted at a place outside the classified cities has a base of Rs. 1,800, and at 60 per cent DA the total is Rs. 2,880 a month. A Level 2 employee whose basic pay has reached Rs. 24,200 or more is paid the Level 3-to-8 rate, so at another place the base is Rs. 1,800 and the total at 60 per cent DA is Rs. 2,880, not the Rs. 1,440 the Rs. 900 rate would give.

Notes and tax

Transport Allowance is not admissible for a period of absence or leave that covers a full calendar month, nor to an employee provided with a government vehicle. On the tax side, the income-tax exemption Transport Allowance once carried was withdrawn from the assessment year 2019-20 and merged into the standard deduction, so for a general employee the allowance is now fully taxable under both the old and the new regimes. The one exception is a blind or orthopaedically handicapped employee, who retains an exemption of Rs. 3,200 a month under Rule 2BB of the Income-tax Rules, and that exemption survives under the new regime. The figures here are on the 7th CPC rates; an 8th Central Pay Commission has been announced but not implemented, so no new rates are in force. For the wider subject, see the transport allowance article.

See also

• Transport allowance
• Dearness allowance
• House rent allowance
• HRA calculator
• 7th Central Pay Commission
• 7th CPC salary calculator
• Take-home salary for central government employees
• Pay matrix
• Income tax for government employees
• Income tax calculator
• Standard deduction
• Central government employees in India
• Department of Expenditure
• Children Education Allowance

External references

• Department of Expenditure
• Department of Personnel and Training
• Income Tax Department