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Leave Rules
  1. The provisions contained in this Schedule shall apply to all employees of the Insitute
  2. Definitions:
    In this schedule unless the context otherewise requires
    1. “Leave includes casual, earned, academic, study, sabbatical, half pay, commuted, extraordinary, maternity and hospital leave.
    2. “Earned Leave” means : leave earned in respect of periods spent on duty during vacation or otherwise.
    3. “Half Pay Leave” means: leave earned in respect of completed years of service calculated according to the provisions hereinafter contained.
    4. “\commuted Leave” means: leave as provided under paragraph 21.
    5. “Completed years service” means: continous service of the specified duration in the Institute and includes period spent on duty as well as on deputation and leave including extraordinary leave.
  3. Leave cannot be claimed as a matter of right. When the exigencies of the service so require, discretion to refuse or cancel leave of any description is reserved with the authority empowered to grant it.
  4. The nature of leave due and applied for by an employee cannot be altered at the option of the sanctioning authority, so , while it is open to the sanctioning authority to refuse or cancel leave due and applied for under this rule it is not open to him to alter the nature of such leave except as provided under para 13.

    Authority empowered to sanction leave
  5. (i) Leave other than 5(iii) may be sanctioned by the Director or by a member of the staff to whom powers in respect have been delegated by the Director.
    (ii) The Chairman of the Board of Governors will have the power to sanction leave to Director except as provided under 5(iii)
    (iii) Study Leave to the employees of the Institute including the Director will be sanctioned by the Board of Governors.
    Commencement and termination of leave
  6. (i) Leave ordinarily begins from the date on which leave actually availed of and ends on the day preceding the one on which duty is resumed.
    (ii) Sundays and other holidays may be prefixed as well as suffixed to leave subject to any limit of absence on leave prescribed under each category of leave.
  7. All kiinds of leave, other than earned leave, shall automatically lapse on the date of actual retirement or resignation of an employee.

    Application for Leave
  8. (i ) An application for leave shall be made to the authority competent to grant leave. In the application for leave the kind of leave required and complete address while on leave, shall be given.

    (ii) Every application for leave on Medical grounds, if it is more than three days, must be accompanied by a Medical Certificate from the Institute Medical Officer or from a registered Medical practitioner having qualification not less than M.B.B.S. However, in the case of an employee in category B service, a medical certificate given by a registered medical practitioner or a registered Vaidya or Hakim/Homeopath will also be accepted. Provided that the Director, may, at his discretion, secure a second medical opinion from the Institute Medical Officer or Chief Medical Officer. In that case, it will be incumbent upon the employee concerned to appear before that authority for second medical examination and the Medical Authority so nominated shall express an opinion both as regards the facts of the illness and as regards the necessity for the amount of leave recommended. The fee, if any, to be charged for second medical opinion shall be paid by the Institute.

    (iii) The mere submission of an application for leave does not mean that the leave has been sanctioned, the applicant should await orders of the competent authority and proceed on leave only after it has been duly sanctioned by the competent authority. Except in the case of emergency an employee who absents himself from duty without proper permission of the competent authority is liable to have his absence from duty without leave.

    Rejoining duty on return from leave on Medical Certificate.
  9. An employee who has been granted leave on Medical Certificate shall be required to produce a Medical certificate of fitness before resuming duty.
  10. Except with the permission of the authority which granted the leave, no employee on leave may return to duty before the expiry of the period of leave granted to him.
  11. Continuous Temporary Service followed by permanent service without any break shall be included in permanent service for the purpose of computation of all kinds of leave
  12. If an employee overstays his leave, he shall forfeit all salary during the time of his remaining so absent and if he overstays his leave for more than a fortnight his services are liable to be terminated.

    Conversion of One kind of leave into another kind
  13. (i) At the request of an employee the sanctioning authority may convert any kind of leave (except casual leave)including extra-ordinary leave, retrospectively into leave of a differed kind which may be admissible as on date on which the conversion is approved, but the employee cannot claim such conversion as a matter of right.

    (ii) If one kind of leave is converted into another the amount of leave salary and allowances admissible shall be recalculated and the arrears of leave and allowances paid and amounts overdrawn recovered, as the case may be.
    Acceptance of Employment during leave
  14. An employee on leave may not take any service or accept any employment (including the setting up of a private professional practice as consultant, accountant or legal practitioner etc. ) without obtaining the prior sanction of the appointing authority in writing.

    Counting of leave towards increment
  15. All leave except the extra-ordinary leave will count towards increment. The competent authority may in any case in which it is satisfied that the extra-ordinary leave was taken on account of illness or any other cause beyond the control of the employee or for persuing higher scientific and technical studies, direct that the extra ordinary leave shall count towards increment. In the case of extra-ordinary leave the date of increment shall be advanced by the period of such leave except as provided above.

    Leave travel concession
  16. The Institute employees other than work charged employee shall be entitled to the leave travel concession as under:
    1) Leave travel concession for journey to any place in India in every block of 4 calendar years commencing from April, 1990, the first block being 1990-93.

    In this concession for visiting any place in India is not utilized during a certain block of 4 years, it can be carried forward to the first year of the subsequent block of four years with the permission of the Director .

    2) Leave Travel concession for travelling to Home town in every block of two calendar.

    Years commencing from 1990-first block being of years 1990 and 1991. In case the leave Travel Concession for travel to any place in the India as specified at (1) is availed of in a certain block of 4 years by an employee,the said employee shall be entitled to avail of the leave travel concession for travel to his Hom Town only once in that block of 4 years.

    The above leave Travel Concession shall be admissible subject to the following conditions:
    (i) The reimbursement of actual fare will be allowed for entire distance covered both ways without any restriction.

    (ii) The reimbursement of the expenditure will be made only if the journeys are performed by rail or by regular Bus service of the State transport department, State Tourism undertakings, State Transport Departments or corporations either of the Punjab State or any other State. Chartering of buses/private vehicles will not be permitted.

    (iii) The concession will also be admissible for journeys performed by the institute employees during regular leave or casual leave, as the case may be, irrespective of the duration of leave.

    (iv) Family includes Institute employees spouse and dependent children upto 21 years of age only.

    (v) The concession will not be admissible for travel by air or air conditioned Ist class Rail. Officers entitled to travel on tour/transfer by air or air conditioned Ist class rail will be entitled to claim only Ist class Railway fare. For journeys performed by Leave Travel concession beneficiaries, they will claim fare only for the shortest route between the place of embarking for journey and the destination. The reimbursement of fare will be regulated as laid down by Government of India vide their letter No. 310011/35/86-Estt (A) dated 6.8.1987.

    (vi) Prior permission of the Deputy Director in case of category ‘B’ employees and Director in case of category ‘A’ employees should be obtained before undertaking the journey while availing of the concession in the prescribed application form.

    (vii) After the completion of journeys while submitting his claim, an employee will furnish a certificate and an affidavit in the prescribed proformas respectively.

    Instructions issued by the Government of India for grant of Leave Travel Concession for visiting any place in India will apply mutatis mutandis to all the Institute employees subject to the conditions mentioned in para 2 above.

    These instructions will take effect from April 1, 1990 and all journeys under Leave Travel Concession commencing on or after the date of issue of these instructions.
  17. Casual leave:
    (i) Casual leave is not earned by duty and, as such, an employee on casual leave is not treated absent from duty and his salary is not interrupted. Casual Leave cannot be claimed as a matter of right and its grant is always subject to the exigencies of service, and also to a maximum number of days is a calendar year shown against each category of the staff as bellow:

    Teaching in Category-A
    Casual Leave 10 days
    Special Casual Leave 10 days (for examination duties, illness and other date bound & genuine need)

    Teaching not included in Category –A and Non-Teaching Staff:
    (1) For service upto 10 years 10 days
    (2) for service between 10 to 20 years 15 days
    (3) For service above 20 years 20 days

    Note :
    Additional 7 days casual leave will be allowed to Chowkidars in lieu of their duties on Sundays an other Holidays.

    Provided that all women employees in service shall be entitled to 20 days Casual leave every year irrespective of the number of years of service put in by them.

    (ii) Casual leave may be granted as and when required at the discretion of the sanctioning authority, Provided that the total period of absence, including Sundays/or other holidays, prefixed and/or suffixed, shall not exceed 10 days at a time. Casual leave can not be combined with any other kind of leave.

    (iii) Six days special casual leave may be granted to the employees of the Institute who undergo sterilization operation under the family planning scheme.

    (iv) Institute employees enrolled in the Territorial army with the written permission of the Director, may be granted special casual leave for the period they are required to attend the Annual Training Camp of Course of instructions.
Short LeaveFor taking part of the day as casual leave following are the rules:
1. Short leave upto two hours- one third

2. More then two hours but less then 3.5 hours- half 3. More then 3.5 hours - 1 day The fraction of leave of a day taken by an officiaal in a calender year in excess of the casual leave may be converted in a full day if it is more then half and debited to his earned leave account. In case it is less then half, it may be ignored. One day's casual leave will be forfeited for every three days late attendance provided the official is not late for more then 2 hours on each occasion. Permission to attend office late by one or two hours will also be treated as late attendance for above purpose.

17 (A) Compensatory Casual Leave(a) Compensatory Casual Leave may be granted to the Assistants/Stenographers, Clerks and Category-B-3 employees only.

(b) Compensatory Casual Leave can be availed of within 90 days of the day in lieu of which it is claimed and will lapse after that.

(c) Not more than three days of compensatory casual leave can be availed of at a time and it can be suffixed or prefixed to ordinary casual leave and Saturdays. Sundays and other Holidays.

Note:
The above staff should be called on Holidays only when it is very necessary with the prior permission of the head of the department/section after giving justification in writing.

Academic Leave18. The director may grant upto the limit of 15 days in an academic year leave of absence from duty to a member of the teaching staff in connection with the following:

(i) To deliver academic lectures at a University or a College or any professional institutions.
(ii) To attend meeting of Statutory Board of any committee constituted by Government or the bodies like institutions of Engineers (India).
(iii) To inspect academic institutions attached to a University/Board.
(iv) To attend an academic conference or any other work of an academic or technical nature.

Sabbatical Leave18.A.1. Sabbatical Leave may be granted for one or more of the following objects, namely:

(a) to conduct research or advanced studies in India or abroad;

(b) to write text books, standard works and other literature;

(c) to visit or work in industrial concerns and technical departments of Govt. to gain practical experience in their respective fields;

(d) to visit or work in a University, Industry or Government research Laboratories in India or abroad and

(e) any other purposes for the academic development of the staff member, as approved by the Board.

2. The Grant of sabbatical leave shall be subject to the following conditions, namely:

(a) The period of Sabbatical leave shall not exceed one year at a time including vacations, if any, but the Board may grant in addition any other leave upto a maximum of 120 days, which the member might have earned during the service at the Institute.

(b) a member of the academic staff shall, during the period of sabbatical leave be paid full salary and allowances as admissible under the normal rules in India but he shall not be entitled to any travelling allowance or any extra allowance in India or abroad.

(c) a member of the academic staff shall not undertake during the period of sabbatical Leave, any regular appointment under any other organisation in India or abroad; he shall, however, be free to receive a scholarship or fellowship or bursary or any other adhoc honorarium other than his regular employment.

(d) a member of the academic staff availing sabbatical leave shall furnish a bond in the prescribed from to serve the Institute for a minimum period of three years on return to duty.

Duty Leave18 (B) “Director may grant upto the limit of 10 days in a Calender year leave of absence from duty to Non-teaching officials of the Institute for attending meetings of the university Grants commission or any other central Body like DST, CSIR, ICAR, ICMR ect”.

Study leave19 (a) Study leave may ordinarily be admissible to the employees of the Institute to pursue a special course of study or investigation of scientific nature. Provided that : except in exceptional cases at the discretion of the Board study leave shall be granted only (1) in the fields in which the interest of the institute shall be served and (2) in such disciplines for which suitable facilities do not exist at the Institute.

(b) Study leave shall not be granted to any employee of the Institute having less than five years service in the Institute or who has attained the age of 50 years. It shall not be admissible to the employees other than the permanent ones.

Note:
The upper age limits may be relaxed on the recommendation of the Director provided the employee can serve the Institute for periods indicated under (e) of the rule, after his return from study leave:

(c) (i) Emoluments During Study Leave:

For M.Sc/ M.E/M . Tech. Courses:
Half pay plus allowances admissible thereon, if sanctioned shall be payable for the normal, duration of the course, i.e. one to two years as applicable to the particular course which the applicant studies. Any leave taken thereafter shall be without pay.

For Ph. D. Courses:
Half pay plus allowances admissible thereon, if sanctioned, shall be payable for a period of not more than three years and thereafter the leave shall be without pay.

(ii) If an employee is sponsored by the Institute for undergoing any specialized course or training in the interest of the Institute, he shall be given full salary and monthly allowances of not more than one fourth of his salary. In addition to the above, he shall be entitled to travelling expenses both ways.

(d) Increments during the period of study leave:

For M.Sc/M.E/M .Tech. Courses:
On successful completion of the course, regular increments in the time scale, not exceeding two increments shall be allowed for the period of study leave which will be granted on return to duty and on production of a certificate from the Institution/University that the performance during the study period was satisfactory, Any extended leave without pay, if sanctioned, will not count towards increments.

For Ph. D. Courses:
On successful completion of the course regular increments in the time scale, not exceeding three increments, shall be admissible for the actual period of study leave which will be granted only on return to duty and on production of certificate from the Institution/ University that the performance during the study period was satisfactory.

(e) An employee of the Institute who avails himself of study leave shall be required to execute a Bond, on the prescribed form, with tow sureties to serve the institute after his return from study leave for a period as indicated.

Period of Study leave Period for which bond is to be executed Whether/or not allowed salary and /or allowance
One year or less One Year More than one year Equal to the period of study Leave

(f) An employee who avails himself of study leave must submit a duly certified report by his professor incharge on his progress and achievement every year during the period of his leave. A consolidated report should be submitted after return from leave.

(g) Not more than 20% of the staff in a Department shall be granted study leave at a time subject to a maximum of two.(h) Period of Study Leave:

For M.Sc/M.E/M.Tech. Courses:
Study leave, if granted, shall be dependant on the normal duration of the course of the University concerned, i.e. one to two years as applicable to the course.

For Ph. D. Courses:
Study leave, if granted, shall be for two years in the first instance extendable by the Board of Governors on production of report of satisfactory performance and recommendation of extension in leave. In no case it shall be for more than four years.

(i) No employee having availed himself of study leave once shall be entitled to this leave again before completing the Bond period.

(j) If an employee fails to serve the institute after his return from study leave for the full or part of the period mentioned in (e) above he shall pay to the Institute liquidated damages equal to full pay and allowances for the unserved portion of the bond period plus interest thereon at the prevailing bank rate on fixed deposit for one year if the payment is not made promptly on demand.

(k) Incentive Increments:

(i) For M.Sc/M.E/M.Tech. Courses:
One incentive increment shall be given from the date on which the result of successful completion of the degree is announced, but it shall be sanctioned after the employee returns to duty. The date of regular increment shall not change.

Provided that two incentive increments shall be given to a person who does Ph. D. straight after B.Sc. (Engg.)/ B.E., from the date on the Degree is announced, but it shall be sanctioned after the employee returns to duty. The date of regular increment shall not change.

One incentive increment for any other improvement in qualification may be allowed provided prior permission has been taken for pursuing such studies and such improvement is directly related to the field of activity of the applicant. Provided further in no case an employee can earn more than two such increments throughout his service in the Institute.

(l) If a person on return from study leave is promoted to the next higher scale of pay, his initial salary in the higher scale shall be fixed after taking into consideration the increments due to him in the lower pay scale.

(m) Quality Improvement Programme:
If an employee is sponsored for Quality improvement Programme or any other similar Programme, he shall be entitled to benefits Specified under that programme. He shall however not be entitled to any incentive increments.

(h) M.Sc/M.A (Applied Sciences & Humanities)

Since the basic qualification for recruitment in such cases is M.Sc./M.A. no study leave or increment will be admissible for M.Sc./M.A. .

For Ph. D. the rule as under (k) above for Ph. D.(Engg.) will apply.

20. Half Pay Leave(a) Half pay leave admissible to an employee in respect of each completed year of service shall be 20 days.

(b) Half pay leave may be granted to an employee on Medical grounds or for other reasons as approved by the Director. Provided that in case of a temporary employee no half pay leave will be granted unless the authority competent to sanction leave is satisfied that the employee will return to duty on the expiry of leave , except in the case of an employee who has been declared completely and permanently incapacitated for further service by medical authority.

(c) Save in case of leave preparatory to retirement “leave Not due” may be granted to on employee in permanent service for a period not exceeding 360 days during his entire service. But this leave shall not exceeded 90 days at a time except in the case of illness of the employee himself where it can be extended to 180 days. Such leave shall be debited against the half pay leave the employee may earn subsequently.

Note:
Leave not due shall be granted only if the authority empowered to sanction leave is satisfied that there are reasonable prospects of the employee returning to duty on the expiry of the leave and shall be limited to the half pay leave he is likely to earn thereafter.

21. Commuted Leave Commuted leave not exceeding half the period of half pay leave may be granted on medical certificate to an employee subject to the following conditions:
(a) When the commuted leave is granted twice the period of such leave shall be debited against the half pay leave due.

(b) No commuted leave may be granted unless it has been applied for atleast 30 days at a time. This restriction of minimum quantum of leave to be taken at a time does not apply in the case of vacation staff who are not entitled to earned leave.

(c) The commuted leave during the entire period of service shall be limited to a maximum of 240 days.

(d) The total duration of earned leave and commuted leave taken in continuation shall not exceed 240 days
Provided that no commuted leave may be granted under this para unless the authority competent to sanction leave is satisfied that the employee will return to duty on its expiry.

22. Earned leave admissible to the vacation staff(i) During the period of one academic year, the vacation staff will be entitled to vacation for 60 days.

(ii) Earned leave admissible to a Teacher shall be:

(a) 1/30th of the actual Service including vacation +1/3rd of the period, if any during which he is required ordinary leave special casual leave/duty leave shall be excluded.

(b) For purposes of computation of actual service all period of his ectra-ordinary leave special casual leave/duty sleave shall be excluded

(c) Earned leave may be granted for a period not exceeding 300 days.

Also leave preparatory to retirement may be a allowed upto 300 days provided it is due.

(d) Where a teacher combines vacation with Earned leave, the period of vacation shall be reckoned leave in calculating the maximum amount of leave on average pay which may be included in the particular period of leave.

(iii) the word “ vacation” Implies both the summer and winter Break.

(iv) Earned leave admissible to non vocation staff:

The earned leave admissible to an employee shall be according to Institute Regulations as in force from time to time. The present scale is as follows:

(a) 1/24 of the period spent on duty during first 10 years of service.

(b) 1/18 of the period spent on duty during next 10 years of service.

(c) 1/12 of the period spent on duty thereafter.

(v) Earned Leave may be granted for a period not exceeding 300 days.

Also leave preparatory to retirement may be allowed upto 300 days, provided it is due.

Provided that the employees can get cash payment in lieu of leave preparatory to retirement upto 300 days equivalent of leave salary in respect of the period of earned leave at their credit at the time of retirement on suerannuation in one lumpsum as one time settlement, in the case of an employee who gets extension in service the concession of cash payment shall be granted on the date of final retirement on expiry of extension to the extent of unutilized earned leave at his credit on expiry of extension reduced by earned leave availed of during the period of extension subject to a maximum of 300 days. But the leave salary in all such cases shall not include city compensatory allowance and/or house rent allowance.

This will be further subject to the condition that maximum period of earned leave that could be accumulated would be as per the institute Regulations.

“In case of an employee who dies while in the service the cash equivalent of Leave Salary in respect of Earned Leave at his credit subject to a maximum of 300 days shall be paid to his family w.e.f. 1.1.1986 and no C.P.F. deductions shall be effected on this account”

Leave Encashment in lieu of Leave Preparatory to Retirement will also be admissible to the employees retired voluntarily prematurely or on invalidation w.e.f. 1.3.1989.

(vi) “Provided that the employees including the employees who get premature retirement can get cash payment in lieu of leave preparatory to retirement upto 300 days and accumulation of earned leve in their case shall be restricted to 450 days.”

Note:
The existing employees shall, however, have the option either to continue to be governed by the existing rules or by this new provision, the option being exercisable within a period of two months from the date of issue of this amendment.

This will come into force w.e.f. .1.1.1986.

23. Extra Ordinary Leave(a) Extra ordinary leave shall always be without pay and allowances and may be granted when no other kind of leave is admissible or when other leave being admissible the employee concerned specially applies in writing for the grant of extra ordinary leave.

(b) Except in the case of a permanent employee the duration of extra-ordinary leave on any one occasion shall not exceed the following limits:

(i) Three months for less than three years completed service.

(ii) Six months, in the case of employee who has completed three years continuos service on the date of expiry of leave admissible to him under the rules and his request for such leave is supported by a Medical certificate.

(iii) Eighteen months when the employee is suffering from tuberculosis or leprosy etc and undergoing treatment in a Registered clinic and a specialist.

(c) The authority empowered to grant leave may commute retrospectively period of absence without leave into extra-ordinary leave.

Note:
The power of commuting retrospectively period of absence without leave into extra-ordinary leave is absolute and not subject to the conditions mentioned in sub-clause (a) above.

24. Maternity Leave(a) All women employees other than those employed part-time and on daily wages are entitled for Maternity leave on full pay provided they don’t have 3 or more living children. The maximum period of Maternity Leave to the women employees shall be 180 days without the necessity of production of a medical certificate. Extension if any, beyond 180 days shall, however, be permitted by the grant of leave of the kind due. Any leave applied for in continuation of Maternity leave will be granted only it it is supported by a Medical certificate from a competent medical authority.

(b) Maternity leave not exceeding six weeks on account of miscarriage or abortion shall be admissible only in those cases where a women employee has only one living child. The others having two or more children shall not be entitled to avail of this concession but if required can be sanctioned, leave of the kind due on the production of a medical certificate.

25. Hospital Leave(a) Hospital leave may be granted to an employee under Medical treatment for illness or injury directly due to risk incurred in the courses of his official duty.

This concession will be available to such employee, the nature of whose duties exposes them to such illness of injury.

(b) Hospital leave may be granted on full or half salary, as the Director may decide.

(c) The period of Hospital leave shall be limited to three months on full salary in any period of three years.

Hospital leave on half salary counts for the purpose of this limit as half the period of leave on full salary.

(d) Hospital leave is not debited against the leave account and may be combined with any other leave except casual leave which may be admissible, provided that the total period of leave after such combination shall not exceed 18 months.

26. Vacation and Leave Salary
(a) An employee of the Institute entitled to vacation shall be eligible for pay and allowances at full rates during the period of vacation.

(b) An employee who proceeds on earned leave is entitled to leave salary equal to the average monthly pay earned during the 10 complete months immediately preceding the month in which the leave commences, or the substantive pay to which the leave commences, or the substantive pay to which the employee is entitled immediately before the commencement of leave whichever, is greater. Provided that in case, the official is in permanent employment, who has continuously officiated in another post for more than three years, the leave salary shall be equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave.

(c) An employee on half pay leave or leave not due, is entitled to leave salary equal to half the amount specified in Sub-Rule (b)

(d) An employee on commuted leave is entitled to leave salary equal to the amount admissible under Sub-Rule (b)

(e) An employee on extra-ordinary leave is not entitled to any leave salary.

26. Limit of total absence:
No employee shall be granted leave which will keep him continuously absent from duty for a period exceeding three years. An employee ceases to be in the service of the Institute, if he is continuously absent from duty for a period exceeding three years.
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