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The Assam State Electricity Board Employees' (General Services) Regulations, 1960
The Assam State Electricity Board Employees' (General Services) Regulations, 1960
Sections
1. Short title.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Service classification.
Section 34. Service Record.
Section 45. Recruitment.
Section 56. Transfer.
Section 67. Resignation.
Section 78. Retirement.
Section 89. Termination of employment.
Section 910. Disciplinary action and punishment.
Section 1011. Pay and increments.
Section 1112. Travelling allowance.
Section 1213. Leave.
Section 1314. Holidays.
Section 1415. Residential accommodation.
Section 1516. Medical facilities.
Section 1617. Provident Fund, pension and gratuity.
Section 17
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"content": "(a) \"Board\" means the Assam State Electricity Board as constituted under Section 5 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948 (Act 54 of 1948);\n(b) \"Competent Authority\" or Competent Officer means the authority or Officer declared or designated as such by the Board for the purposes of these Regulations;\n(c) \"Authorised Medical Practitioner\" means a registered medical practitioner designated as such, and where no such practitioner has been so designated, any registered medical practitioner in the service of Government or a Local Body;\n(d) \"Employee\" means any person employed by or in the name of the Board to do any work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be expressed or implied;\n(e) A \"Permanent Employee\" means an employee who has been engaged on a permanent basis against a post sanctioned without limit of time;\n(f) A \"Temporary employee\" means an employee who has been engaged for work which is of an essentially temporary nature likely to be finished within a limited period, or is employed on temporary basis against a permanent post;\n(g) A \"Casual Employee\" means an employee whose employment is of a casual nature;\n(h) \"A \" Probationer\" means an employee employed provisionally to fill a permanent post and whose service under the Board has not been confirmed;\n(i) \"Day\" means a period of twenty four hours beginning at midnight;\n(j) \"Family\" means-\n(i) dependent wife, in case of a male employee;\n(ii) dependent husband, in case of a female employee;\n(iii) parents, wholly dependent upon the employee, unmarried daughters and minor sons and wholly dependent on the employee;\n(k) \"Pay\" means the amount drawn monthly or otherwise by an employee as remuneration fixed in relation to the post held by him and includes personal pay, special pay and any other emoluments which may be specifically classed as pay by the Board.",
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"content": "(b) The Board may lay down the age of superannuation applicable to different categories of its employees and where this is not so laid down the age of 55 years shall be deemed to be the age of superannuation.",
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"content": "(a) without any notice-\n(i) at any time, in the case of casual employee;\n(ii) in the case of a probationer, during the period of probation or on its expiry;\n(iii) in the case of a temporary employee, if the period of temporary employment does not extend beyond 12 calendar months, before the expiry of the said period;\n(iv) in the case of all employees, if such termination is the result of disciplinary action or takes place under an agreement which specifies a date for the termination of service.\n(b) with notice-",
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"content": "(a) wilful insubordination or disobedience, whether alone or in combination with others, to any lawful and reasonable order of a superior;\n(b) theft, fraud or dishonesty in connection with the business of the Board or its property;\n(c) causing wilful damage to or loss of the Board's goods or property;\n(d) taking or giving bribes or illegal gratification;\n(e) absence without leave or overstay of sanctioned leave without sufficient cause;\n(f) habitual late attendance;\n(g) habitual breach of any law applicable to the establishment;\n(h) riotous or disorderly conduct in connection with his employment or any act subversive of discipline;\n(i) habitual negligence or neglect of duty;\n(j) striking work or inciting others to strike work in contravention of the provisions of any law, or rule having the force of law;\n(k) unauthorised divulgence of any official information or document;\n(i) being under the influence of alcohol on duty;\n(m) for acts involving moral turpitude.\n(i) Warning.\n(ii) Reprimand or Censure.\n(iii) Stoppage of increment for a specified period.\n(iv) Fine.\n(v) Recovery of loss caused to the Board through negligence or breach of orders from the pay of the employee up to such extent as may be decided by a competent authority.\n(vi) Reduction to a lower post or time scale or to lower stage in a time scale.\n(vii) Termination of employment.\n(viii) Dismissal.",
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"content": "(b) Employees of the Board shall be entitled to pay according to the categories of service to which they belong.\n(b) The initial pay of a Board's employee on a time scale of pay may be fixed at a higher stage by grant of advance increments in deserving cases as may be decided by the Board or a competent authority.\n(b) Increments falling due while an employee is on leave shall be drawn with effect from the date of his rejoining duty. This will not, however, affect the date on which the next increment falls due.\n(c) Any period spent on extraordinary leave without pay, period of absence, without leave, and any period during which an employee is on suspension; provided such suspension is proved to be justified, shall not count towards increments.\n(d) Where an efficiency bar is prescribed in a time scale of pay, the increment next above the bar shall not be drawn without the specific sanction of a competent authority and unless the employee concerned has passed such test as may be laid down for the purpose.",
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"content": "(b) A 'probationer' and a temporary employee whose service is terminated on the expiry of, or during the period of probation and a casual employee shall not earn such leave otherwise than as provided hereinafter.\n(c) Subject to the first proviso under Regulation 13(2) (a), probationer and a temporary employee whose service extends for more than one year shall be entitled to earned leave as though they are permanent employees.\n(d) An employee who is either a probationer, a casual or a temporary employee, and who is governed by the Factories Act, 1948, shall not by dint of these regulations be deprived of any leave to which he may be entitled under the said Act.\n(b) Casual lease not availed of during a calendar year will not be carried forward to the following year.\n(c) An employee on casual leave shall be entitled to pay as if he was on duty.\n(b) The medical certificate shall be from an authorised medical practitioner.\n(c) Leave on medical certificate be taken in continuation with earned leave and vacation; provided that the total duration of earned leave and vacation and leave on medical certificate taken together shall not exceed a hundred and eighty days at any one time.\n(d) An employee shall be entitled, at his option, to convert leave on medical certificate on one half pay to half the amount of leave on full pay.\n(b) Leave of any other kind may be granted in case of miscarriage, including abortion subject to the condition that the leave does not exceed six weeks.",
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"title": "15. Residential accommodation.",
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"content": "(b) Residential accommodation cannot be claimed by an employee as a matter of right.\n(c) The terms governing the occupation of residential accommodation shall be as laid down by the Board.\n(d) The Board may sanction house rent allowance to any class or category of its employees in the interest of the Board's work; provided that no such allowance shall be payable to an employee in whose case provision has been made for residential accommodation, otherwise than as may be decided by the Board in each particular case.",
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"content": "(b) For the purpose of providing medical facilities, the Board may make arrangement with authorised medical practitioners and such hospitals, dispensaries and pharmacies as may be considered necessary.",
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"title": "17. Provident Fund, pension and gratuity.",
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"content": "(b) The Board may operate a non-contributory P.F. Scheme for the benefit of its employees who are eligible for pensionary benefits.",
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