CASUAL LEAVE
Authority: Instructions 1 – 6, Annexure VII of FR & SR and District Office Manual.
Casual leave is a concession to enable Govt. servant in special circumstances to be absent from duty for a short period, without such absence being treated as leave.
The maximum period of casual leave that can be availed of in a calendar year is only 15 days. The unavailed part of leave lapses at the close of the calendar year.
Casual leave may be combined with optional holidays or Sundays or other authorised public holidays, provided the resulting period of absence does not exceed 10 days. In the case of Casual leave to purely temporary and emergency Government.
The sanctioning authority will use its discretion, having regard to the length of service put in by such Government servant.
A Govt. servant may be granted casual leave for half a day either from 10.30 to 1.30 p.m., or from 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Every government servant is expected to attend punctually by 10.30 am. If there is late attendance beyond 10 min., late attendance should be marked and recorded in the late attendance register. For every three late attendances, one day of CL should be forfeited.
The balance of late attendance in a year can be brought forward to the next calendar year for forfeiting CL if there is no CL available in the previous year.
The Head of the Office is competent to sanction leave. HODs should intimate their intention of availing of CL or OH to the Government in the concerned Administrative Department.
A Register of CLs availed by every Govt. servant showing the CLs availed, purpose of availment and balance should be maintained.
CL cannot be combined with the regular leave / joining time, vacation.
The Commissioner of Intermediate Education / Commissioner of Collegiate Education was permitted to allow 1 day CL per month of actual contractual service on full remuneration with a facility of accumulating and availing a maximum of 3 days CL at a time to the Contract Junior Lecturers / Lecturers working in the Govt. Junior / Degree Colleges in the State. (Memo No. 12754/I.E.I/A1/2007-2, Higher Education (I.E.I/A1) Dept, Dt.27.02.2008).
Women Teachers can avail of 5 days of CL extra in addition to the CLs, OHs being availed of at present. (G.O.Rt.No.374, Edn.(Ser.V) Dept., Dt.16.03.96),
The benefit of availing of 5 days CL extra in addition to the CLs and OHs being availed, to the Women Instructors (i.e. Technical Assistants, ATOs, DTOs & TOs) working in Govt. it is / DLTCs in the state. (G.O.Ms.No.59, Labour Employment Trg. & Factories (Emp.) Dept., Dt.22.07.2008)
The benefit of availing of 5 days CL extra in addition to the CLs and OHs being availed to the Women Junior Lecturers working in the Govt. Junior Colleges in the State. (G.O.Rt.No.3, Higher Education (IE.I) Dept., Dt.05.01.2001).
