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LEAVE RULES
Chapter-4
LEAVE RULES
(a) The authority competent to grant leave is satisfied that there is reasonable
prospect of the employee returning to duty on its expiry.
(b) When the commuted leave is granted, twice the amount of such leave shall be
debited against the half pay leave due. It can be granted at the request of the
employee even when the earned leave is due to him.
LEAVE NOT DUE (Rule 31)
Save in the case of leave preparatory to retirement, leave not due may be granted to
a government servant in permanent employment or quasi-permanent employment subject
to the following conditions:
(a) The authority competent to grant leave is satisfied that there is reasonable
prospect of the Govt. servant returning to duty on its expiry.
(b) Leave not due shall be limited to the half pay leave he is likely to earn
thereafter.
(c) Leave not due during the entire service shall be limited to a maximum of 360
days
(d) Leave not due shall be debited against the half pay leave the Government
servant may earn subsequently.
EXTRAORDINARY LEAVE: may be granted to an employee in special circumstances:
(a) When no other leave is admissible.
(b) When other leave is admissible but the Government servant applies in writing
for the grant of extraordinary leave. It varies from 3 months to 24 months as
per rule 32 of C.C.S. Leave rules.
LEAVE PREPARATORY TO RETIREMENT (Rule 38)
An employee may be permitted by the authority competent to grant to take leave
preparatory to retirement to the extent of earned leave due (not exceeding 300 days)
together with half pay leave due,(subject to the condition that such leave extends up to and
includes the date of retirement).
MATERNITY LEAVE (Rule 43)
A female employee may be granted maternity leave by an authority competent to
grant leave for such a period of 180 days from the date of its commencement. During such
a period she shall be paid leave salary equal to the pay drawn immediately preceding the
leave.
PATERNITY LEAVE (With effect from 7.10.97)
A male employee with less than 2 surviving children may be granted paternity
leave for a period of 15 days during the confinement of his wife i.e. up to 15 days before or
up to 6 months from date of delivery of child. If such a leave is not availed it will be
treated as lapsed. Paternity leave shall not be debited to leave account.
HOSPITAL LEAVE (Rule 46)
The authority competent to grant leave may grant hospital leave to
(a) Class IV employees, and
(b) Such class III employees whose duties involve the handling of dangerous
machinery, explosive materials poisonous drugs and the like, or the
performance of hazardous tasks, While under medical treatment in a hospital or
otherwise, for illness or injury if such illness or injury is directly due to risks
incurred in the course of official duties.
(a) When delegates to the All India Conferences and Circle conferences and
meetings of the executive councils and circle and divisional executive
committees are required to attend such conferences and meetings.
(b) When the members from outstations are required to attend monthly meetings
with the Heads of Circles.
(c) When members from outstations on deputation wait for the Minister, Minister
of State (Deputy Minister and Director General).
Special casual leave may be allowed to members of the unions coming from
outstations to attend their monthly meetings with Departmental Officers at Divisional level
on the following conditions:
(a) That not more than two members of the Divisional Union are allowed this
concession during a year.
(b) That special casual leave is allowed only for the day/days of the meeting and
the actual time taken in the journey.
(c) That the maximum limit of special casual leave allowed should not exceed 12
days in a year.
(d) That the concession under this item will not bring an additional benefit to staff
who under paragraph (1) above are allowed the concession of special casual
leave to the extent of 20 days in a year. If any official is required to meet the
Divisional Head, the special casual leave granted to him for the purpose will be
counted against those 20 days special casual leave in a year.
(e) The local members may be given suitable off for the duration of the meeting.
All the above concessions are to be allowed subject to condition of exigencies of
service.
(D.O.T's Memo No. 54/1/71-SPB II dated 15th March 1971)
REGARDING GRANT OF SPECIAL CASUAL LEAVE
For participation in Sports and Cultural Activities
(A) Sports Events
Special casual leave may be allowed to an employee for period not
exceeding 30 days in any one calendar year. The period of absence in excess of 30 days
should be treated as regular leave of the kind admissible under the leave rules applicable
to the persons concerned. For this purpose employees may as a special case, be permitted
to combine special casual leave with regular leave. Special casual leave should not
however, be granted in combinations with ordinary casual leave.
The special casual leave may be allowed only -
(a) For participation in sporting events of National or International importance
and
(b) When the employees concerned is selected for such participation,
(c) In respect of International Sporting events by any National sports
Federation/Association recognized by the All India Council of Sports and
approved by the Ministry of Education, or
(d) In respect of events of national importance, when the sporting event
in which participation takes place, is held on an international or inter-circle basis
and the employee concerned takes part in the event in a team as a duly nominated
representative on behalf of the state, zone, or circle, as the case may be. This
concession is not to be allowed for participating either in a National or
Male employees who undergo vasectomy operation under the family welfare
programs may be granted special casual leave not exceeding six working days. If an
employee undergoes vasectomy operation for the second time on account of the failure of
the first operation a special casual leave not exceeding six days may be granted again on
production of a certificate from the medical authority concerned to effect that the second
operation was performed due to the failure of the first operation.
(2) In the case of Female Employees:
(a) Female employees who undergo tubectomy operations-whether puerperal or
non-puerperal may be granted special casual leave not exceeding fourteen
working days.
(b) Female employees who have insertions of intrauterine contraceptive devices
may be granted special casual leave on the day of IUCD insertion.
(c) Female Employees who undergo salpingectomy (MTP) may be granted special
casual leave not exceeding 14 days.
(3) Male Employees whose wives undergo Tubectomy operations:
(a) Male employees whose wives undergo either puerperal or non-puerperal
tubectomy operation for the first time or for the second time due to failure of
the first operation (under Family Welfare Programs) may be granted special
casual leave for 7 days subject to the production of medical certificate stating
that their wives have undergone tubectomy operation for the second time due to
the failure of the first. It shall not be necessary to state in the certificate that the
presence of employees is required to look after the wife during her
convalescence.
(b) Male employees whose wives undergo tubectomy/salpingectomy operation
after Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) may be granted special casual
leave up to 7 days subject to the production of the Medical Certificate stating
that their wives have undergone tubectomy / salpingectomy operation after
Medical Termination of Pregnancy. It shall not be necessary to state in the
certificate that the presence of the employee is required to look after the wife
during her convalescence.
(4) In case of post sterilization/operation complications:
An employee who requires special casual leave beyond the limits laid down for
undergoing sterilization operation owing to the developments of post-operation
complications may be allowed special casual leave to cover the period for which he or she
is hospitalized on account of post operational complications, subject to the production of a
certificate from the concerned hospital, the benefit of the additional special casual leave
may also be extended it the extent of seven days in case of vasectomy operation and the
fourteen days in case of tubectomy operation, and to such employees who after sterilization
operation do not remain hospitalized but at the same time, are not bound fit to go to work,
subject to the production of a medical certificate from the appropriate authority in the
concerned hospital/authorized medical assistant.
(5) For undergoing recanalisation operation:
Employees who undergo operation for recanalisation may be granted special casual
leave up to a period of 21 days or actual period of hospitalization as certified by the
authorized medical attendant, whichever is less. In addition special casual leave can also be
granted for the actual period of the to and fro journey performed for undergoing this
operation. The grant of special casual leave for recanalisation operation (without any
commitment to the reimbursement of medical expenses) is subject to the following
conditions.
(i) The operation should have been performed in hospital/medical college/Institute
where facilities for recanalisation are available. If the operation is performed in a
private hospital it should be one nominated by the State Government for
recanalisation operations.
(ii) The request for grant of special casual leave is supported by a medical
certificate from the doctor who performed the operation to the effect that
hospitalization of the employees for the period stipulated therein was essential for
the operation and post-operation recovery.
The concession indicated above is admissible to employees also who:
(a) Are unmarried or
(b) Have less than two children or
(c) Desire recanalisation for substantial reasons e.g.
(d) A person has lost all male children or all female children after
vasectomy/tubectomy operation performed earlier.
(6) Combining with regular/casual leave:
Special casual leave connected with sterilization/recanalisation may be prefixed to
regular leave or CL. It cannot however be combined with casual leave and regular leave.
(G.I. Department. Of Personal & A.R.O.M. No. 28016/3/78 Estt. (A) dated 6th August
1979)
Leave Application
Application for leave must be submitted in SR-I. An application for leave must be
submitted ordinarily one month in advance so as to enable necessary arrangements to be
made for the performance of the applicants duties during his absence. Where an
application is not submitted one month in advance, in the absence of adequate reasons for
such delayed submission, the leave applied for is liable to be refused or postponed.
An application for leave will be submitted to the applicants immediate superior
who, if he is not the authority competent to sanction the leave will record his
recommendations and proposal for filling up the vacancy during the applicants absence
and forward the application without further delay to the officer who maintains the
applicants service book/record and leave account. That officer will examine the service
book/record and leave account and record the total amount of leave at the credit of the
applicant and forward the form expeditiously to the authority competent to sanction the
leave.
An officer who is authorized to sanction the leave will satisfy himself as to the title
of the leave applied for by reference to the certificate of admissibility of leave recorded on
the leave application. If the officer grants leave, an order will be issued specifying the
arrangements ordered in consequence of the vacancy, if any. A copy of the orders will be
furnished to the Head of the Applicants office and to the Head of the Office from which
the applicants pay is drawn and to each of the officials concerned; and in case of leave
application submitted to the Head of the Circle through a supervising officer, a copy of the
order passed should also be furnished to the supervising officer.
CASUAL LEAVE
Casual leave is not recognized form of leave and is not subject to any rules.
Technically, therefore, an employee on casual leave is not treated as absent from duty and
his pay is not intermitted. For administrative reasons and in order to ensure, as far as
possible, uniformity of treatment in this respect, the following instructions have been laid
down:
(a) The number of days specified is a maximum only and no one can claim the
maximum number of days of casual leave as a matter of right.
(b) Casual leave is intended essentially for short periods or absence due to unexpected
contingencies. Such leave should ordinarily be granted for short periods of , 1, 2,
3 days but not exceeding 5 days at any one time. The head of the office may
however waive this condition in any individual case if he considers that there are
exceptional circumstances justifying a relaxation in this regard. The practice of
prefixing or suffixing casual leave to gazetted holidays and weekly off falling
within the period of casual leave, or proceeding of following it, should not be
counted as part of the casual leave.
(c) Except in the cases specified in para 5.1 given \below the grant of casual leave is, in
each case, subject to the clear condition that no extra expenditure should be
incurred in consequence of the absence of an official on casual leave. Casual leave
can be granted only when this can be done without inconvenience to public
administration and performed by the remaining staff or can be held up without
inconvenience, pending his return to duty.
(d) The authority competent to grant casual leave is head of the office, and where the
applicant is himself the head of the office, the authority immediately superior to
him. The head of the office under the control of a gazzeted officer may delegate the
power to grant casual leave to any authority subordinate to the latter. The decision
of this authority to grant casual leave is final in all cases.
Note 3: In regard to persons who join service in the middle of a calendar year the
authority competent to grant such leave, will have the discretion to grant either the
full period of 12 days or only a proportion thereof, after taking into account the
circumstances of the case.
(e) Casual leave need not be reported nor recorded in absentee statement, in service
books or service rolls. It should be noted in loose sheets in from Est-50 given on
page 67. The form should be kept with the authority, empowered to sanction casual
leave or with his head clerk, if any, Inspecting Officers should scrutinize a
proportion of these casual leave sheets. When an official is transferred, the officer
maintaining his casual leave sheets will forward them enclosed in a service register
cover direct to the officer by whom they are to be maintained.
Absence from duty
Absence after expiry of leave (Rule 25 of C.C.S. Leave Rule)
(a) Unless the authority competent to grant leave extends the leave, an employee who
remains absent after the end of leave is entitled to no leave salary for the period of
such absence and that period shall be debited against his leave account as though it
were half pay leave to the extent such leave is due, or the period in excess of such leave
due being treated as extraordinary leave.
(b) Willful absence from duty after the expiry of leave renders a Government servant
liable to disciplinary action.
If the applicant is drawing any compensatory allowance, it should also be indicated in the
orders on the expiry of leave, the employee is likely to return to the same post or to another
post carrying similar allowance.
Casual Leave Account (Est. 50)