How is a child defined for the purpose of grant of Paternity Leave PATERNITY LEAVE FOR CHILD ADOPTION/CHILD ADOPTION LEAVE How is a child defined for the purpose of grant of Paternity Leave for Child Adoption/Child Adoption Leave As per notes below rules 43AA and 43B “Child” for the purpose will include a child taken as ward by the Government servant, under the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 or the personal law applicable to that Government servant, provided such a ward lives with the Government servant and is treated as a member of the family and provided such Government servant has, through a special will, conferred upon that ward the same status as that of a natural born child’. CHILD CARE LEAVE 1. Whether women employees of Public Sector undertakings/Bodies etc. are entitled to CCL? Orders issued by DOPT are not automatically applicable to the employees of Central Public Sector Undertakings/ Autonomous Bodies, Banks, etc. It is for the PSUs/ Autonomous Bodies to decide ...

STUDY LEAVE INTEREST ON LEAVE ENCASHMENT What is the maximum amount of study leave which can be availed? The maximum amount of study leave for other than CHS officers is restricted to twenty four months during the entire service period and ordinarily it can be allowed for upto twelve months at a time. {Rule 51(1)). For CHS officers the ceiling is for 36 months for acquiring PG qualifications. {Rule 51(2)}. Whether study leave can be clubbed with other leave? Yes . Study leave may be combined with other kinds of leave, but in no case shall be grant of this leave in combination with leave, other than extraordinary leave involve a total absence of more than twenty eight months generally and thirty-six months for the courses leading to PhD. degree from the regular duties of the Government servant. (Rule 54) Whether study leave can be clubbed with other leave? Yes . Study leave may be combined with other kinds of leave, but in no case shall be grant of this leave in combination...

LEAVE ENCASHMENT ON SUSPENSION / DISMISSAL / REMOVAL Whether leave encashment can be sanctioned to a Govt servant on his superannuation while under suspension? Leave encashment may be allowed in such cases. However, Rule 39(3) of CCS (Leave) Rules, 1972 allows withholding of leave encashment in the case of a Govt. servant who retires from service on attaining the age of superannuation while under suspension or while disciplinary or criminal proceedings are pending against him, if in view of the authority there is a possibility of some money becoming recoverable from him on conclusion of the proceedings against him. On conclusion of the proceedings he/she will become eligible to the amount so withheld after adjustment of Government dues, if any. Whether leave encashment can be sanctioned to a Govt.servant on his dismissal/removal, from service? A government servant, who is dismissed / removed from service, ceases to have any claim to leave at his credit from the date of such di...

ENCASHMENT OF EL ON JOINING CENTRAL GOVT TO PSUS ENCASHMENT OF EARNED LEAVE ON JOINING CENTRAL GOVERNMENT FROM PSUS & VICE VERSA Whether earned leave encashment allowed by the State Governments, PSUs, Autonomous Bodies to Govt. servant prior to his joining the Central Govt. is to be taken into account while calculating ceiling of leave encashment on his superannuation and retirement from Central Govt.? Encashment of EL allowed by the State Governments, Public Sector Undertakings/Autonomous Bodies for services rendered therein need not be taken into account for calculating the ceiling of 300 days of Earned leave to be encashed as per CCS (Leave) Rules. Whether Leave encashment allowed by Govt. under CCS(Leave) Rules, 1972 on absorption in a Central autonomous body/PSU is to be taken into account? Encashment of EL allowed by the Govt. under the CCS (Leave) Rules, 1972 for service rendered in the Central Govt. prior to absorption in Central autonomous body shall not be take...

LEAVE ENCASHMENT WITH LTC Whether encashment of leave is allowed after LTC is availed? Sanction of leave encashment should, as a practice, be done in advance, at the time of sanctioning the LTC. However, ex-postfacto sanction of leave encashment on LTC may be considered by the sanctioning authority as an exception in deserving cases within the time limit prescribed for submission of claims for LTC. Whether encashment of leave with LTC can be availed at the time when the LTC is availed by the Government servant only or can leave be encashed at the time when LTC is availed by family members? Yes . A Govt. servant can be permitted to encash earned leave upto 10 days either at the time of availing LTC for himself or when his family avails it provided other conditions are satisfied. Whether leave encashment should be revised on retrospective revision of pay/D.A? In terms of 38-A of CCS(Leave) Rules, encashment of EL alongwith LTC is to be calculated on pay admissible on the dat...

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION 1. What is the maximum period of leave of any kind which can be allowed to a Government servant? What is the impact if such limit is exceeded? No. Government servant shall be granted leave of any kind for a continuous period of 5 years {Rule 12(1))Normally, absence from duty, with or without leave, for a continuous period exceeding 5 years other than on foreign service, implies that such Government servant has deemed to have resigned from Government service. {Rule 12(2)) 2. What are the leave entitlements of Govt. servants serving in a vacation Department? The rule 28 of the CCS (Leave) Rules, 1972 which came into effect from 1.9.2008 regulates the grant of Earned Leave for persons serving in the Vacation Department. The said rule provides for as follows:- (1) (a) A Government servant(other than a military officer) serving in a Vacation Department shall not be entitled to any earned leave in respect of duty performed in any year in which he avails...

Grant of Special Casual Leave for the purpose of blood donation No.13020/1/2017-Estt(L) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Personnel & Training Old JNU Campus, New Delhi 110 067 Dated: 29.12.2017 Office Memorandum Subject: Grant of Special Casual Leave for the purpose of blood donation - reg. The undersigned is directed to refer to the provisions of this Department's O.M. dated 8.10.1956, which provides for grant of Special Casual Leave to a Government servant who donates blood on that day. 2. In this regard, it is noted that presently this rule applies only to whole blood donation and does not cover apheresis donation. It is felt that the rule should cover apheresis donation as well since it will have the added advantage of getting blood components like platelets, plasma etc. 3. In view of the above, it has now been decided that Special Casual Leave may be granted for blood donation or for apheresis (blood components such as...