1.  Coverage:
The reimbursement is admissible to all employees borne on the regular establishment of the Company, including probationers, lien holders, deputationists on foreign service terms (unless the terms of deputation provide otherwise), but excluding trainees, apprentices, casual/temporary employees and persons appointed on contract basis.

2.  Rates of reimbursement:
The rate of reimbursement of expenditure on account of education limited to two children shall be as under:

Note: Employee will bear the initial amount of Rs. 75/- per child per month of the tuition fee. In case where tuition fee is less than Rs. 225/- per month, initial 20% amount of the tuition fee will be borne by the employee.

2.2 The reimbursement of tuition fee will be made @ Rs. 225/- p.m. where CCA/HCA is payable, except project locations where subsdised schooling is available.

3.  Eligibility Conditions:
3.1 The reimbursement will be admissible for Class I and above upto graduation/post graduation including professional courses from recognized University/Institution in respect of the employees' legitimate children, including step children and legally adopted children, who are wholly dependant on them.

For the purpose of determining dependence of children, as above, the same criterion shall be adopted as prescribed under the Company's Medical Attendance Rules.

3.2 Where both husband and wife are employed in SJVNL/Public Sector Undertaking/Government Offices, the reimbursement will be admissible to only one of the parents, subject to a declaration by the employee.

3.3 The reimbursement will be admissible on production of documentary evidence and will be restricted to the actual expenditure incurred towards tuition fees and/or hostel charges only and will not cover special fees like admission fees, laboratory charges, library fees, games fees, tutorial fees, extra curricular activities fees and such other special charges levied by the schools.

3.4 The reimbursement shall not be admissible for a child for more than two academic sessions in the same class.

4.  Procedure for reimbursement:
4.1 Employees intending to avail of the reimbursement under the scheme shall submit a request at the beginning of each academic year along with documentary evidence of payment made by them towards the monthly tuition fees and/or hostel charges in the Proforma at Annexure-A. Subject to the request being in order, the concerned Personnel & Administration Department shall issue a sanction order for each academic year, indicating the amount and period of reimbursement to be made to the employees concerned. Consequent to this, reimbursement shall be allowed on a monthly basis alongwith the salary of the employees concerned, for the sanctioned period during the academic year.

4.2 At the end of each academic year, the employees concerned shall be required to submit an account in the Proforma at Annexure-B, in respect of reimbursement already received towards tuition fees and/or hostel charges for the preceding academic year. The account for a given academic year must be preferred within two months of completion of the academic year, failing which the same shall become time barred and the reimbursement already made shall be recovered in lumpsum from the salaries of the employees concerned.

4.3 It shall be incumbent upon the employees to intimate to the concerned Personnel & Administration Department about the changes in status notified in the beginning of the academic year e.g. change in the tuition fees and/or boarding and lodging charges/school or any other reason etc., if any, during the academic year in respect of the reimbursement sanctioned to them.