CCS Leave Rules 1972 Chapter - 4: Kinds of leave due and Admissible - Earned Leave Rules (EL Rules) Rule No 26 and 27

Earned Leave Rules (EL Rules) for Central government Employees as per CCS Leave Rules 1972.

26. Earned leave for Government servants serving in Departments other than Vacation Departments

 (1)(a)(i) The leave account of every Government servant (other than a military officer) who is serving in a Department other than a Vacation Department, shall be credited with earned leave, in advance, in two installments of 15 days each on the first day of January and July of every calendar year.

       (GSR No. 1422, F.No. 11012/1/77-E.IV(A) dated 21.11.1979)

 (ii)  When a Government servant joins a new post without availing full joining time by reasons that -

 [GSR No. 198 vide DOPT Notification No. 13012/12/86-Estt.(L) dated 25.03.1989]

(a)  he is ordered to join the new post at a new place of posting without availing of full joining time to which he is entitled,

(b)   

or

(b) he proceeds alone to the new place of posting and joins the post without availing full joining time and takes his family later within the permissible period of time for claiming traveling allowance for the family, 

the number of days of joining time as admissible under sub-rule (4) of Rule 5 of the Central Civil Services (Joining Time) Rules, 1979, subject to the maximum of 15 days reduced by the number of days actually availed of, shall be credited to his leave account as earned leave:

Provided that the earned leave at his credit together with the unavailed joining time allowed to be so credited shall not exceed 300     days.

("240 days substituted with 300 days" vide DOPT Notification No. 13026/1/99-Estt. (L), dated 18.04.2002)

(b)  The leave at the credit of a Government servant at the close of the previous half-year shall be carried forward to the next half-year, subject to the condition that the leave so carried forward plus the credit for the half-year do not exceed the maximum limit of 300 days.

Provided that where the earned leave at the credit of Government servant as on the last day of December of June is 300 days or less but more than 285 days, the advance credit of 15 days earned leave on first day of January or July to be afforded in the manner indicated under sub-rule (i) of Clause (a) of sub-rule (1) shall instead of being credited in leave account be kept separately and first adjusted against the earned leave that the Government servant takes during that half-year and the balance, if any, shall be credited to the leave account at the close of the half-year, subject to the condition that balance of such earned leave plus leave already at credit do not exceed the maximum limit of 300 days.

(225 days substituted with 285 days vide DOPT Notification No. 13026/1/99-Estt. (L), dated 18.04.2002)

(DOPT Notification No. 11012/1/2009-Estt.(L) dated 01.12.2009)

(DOPT Notification No. 13026/2/1990-Estt.(L) dated 22.10.1990)

(c)(i) Where a Government servant not in permanent employ or quasi-permanent employ is appointed without interruption of service substantively to a permanent post or declared as quasi permanent, his leave account shall be credited with the earned leave which would have been admissible, if his previous duty had been rendered as a Government servant in permanent employ diminished by any earned leave already taken.

(ii) Where a Government servant had availed of extraordinary leave since the date of permanent appointment or quasi-permanent appointment, such leave may, subject to the provisions of rule 10, be converted into earned leave to the extent it is due and admissible as a result of recasting of his leave account. 

(d)  A period spent in foreign service shall count as duty for purposes of this rule, if contribution towards leave salary is paid on account of such period.

EXCEPTION.-  The earned leave admissible to a Government servant of non-Asiatic domicile recruited in India, who is in continuous service from a date prior to the 1st February, 1949 and is entitled to leave passage, is one-seventh of the period spent on duty and he ceases to earn such leave when the earned leave due amounts to 180 days.

(2) Subject to the provisions of Rules 7 and 39 and sub-rules (1) and (3) of the rule, the maximum earned leave that may be granted at a time shall be -

(i) 180 days in the case of any Government servant employed in India, or

(DOPT Notification No. 11014/3/89-Estt.(L) dated 02.05.1991)

(ii) 150 days, in the case of any Government servant mentioned in the Exception to sub-rule (1)

(3) Earned leave may be granted to a Government servant in Class      I of Class II service or to a Government servant mentioned in the Exception    to sub-rule (1), for a period exceeding 180 days but not exceeding 300 days   if the entire leave so granted or any portion thereof is spent outside India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan:

Provided that where earned leave for a period exceeding 180 days, is granted under this sub-rule, the period of such leave spent in India shall not   in the aggregate exceed the aforesaid limits.

27. Calculation of Earned Leave

(1) Earned leave shall be credited to the leave account of Government servant at the rate of 2½ days for each completed calendar month of service which he is likely to render in a half-year of the calendar year in which he is appointed.

(2)(a) The credit for the half-year in which a Government servant is due to retire or resigns from the service shall be afforded only at the rate of 2½ days per completed calendar month up to the date of retirement or resignation.

 (MOF Notification No. 16(6)-E.IV(A)/74 dated 31.07.1976)

(b)  When a Government servant is removed or dismissed from service, credit of earned leave shall be allowed at the rate of 2½ days per completed calendar month up to the end of the calendar month preceding the calendar month in which he is removed or dismissed from service;

(c) When a Government servant dies while in service, credit of earned leave shall be allowed at the rate of 2 ½ days per completed month of service up to the date of death of the Government servant.

(DOPT Notification No. F. No. 13026/1/2010-Estt. (L), dated 12.05.2011)

(3) If a Government servant has availed of extraordinary leave and/or some period of absence has been treated as dies non in a half-year, the credit to be afforded to his leave account at the commencement of the next half-year shall be reduced by 1/10th of the period of such leave and/or dies non subject to maximum of 15 days.

(MOF Notification No. 11012/1/77-E.IV(A) dated 21.11.1979)

 (4) While affording credit of earned leave, fractions of a day shall be rounded off to the nearest day.

(DoE Notification No. 16(6)-E.IV(A)/74 dated 31.07.1976).

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