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The Gauhati University Leave Rules, 1966
The Gauhati University Leave Rules, 1966
Sections
1. Short title, commencement and extent of application.
Section 12. Interpretation and definitions.
Section 23. General conditions of leave.
Section 34. Kinds of leave.
Section 45. Ordinary casual leave.
Section 56. Special casual leave.
Section 67. Earned leave.
Section 78. Leave on half pay.
Section 89. Leave for tuberculosis, etc.
Section 910. Extraordinary leave.
Section 1011. Maternity leave.
Section 1112. Quarantine leave.
Section 1213. Study leave.
Section 1314. Leave salary.
Section 1415. Powers of the Executive Council.
Section 1516. Authorities competent to sanction leave.
Section 1617. Doubts and difficulties.
Section 1719. Leave Rules for employees of the University Press.
Section 1920. Leave rules for research fellows and scholars of the University.
Section 20
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"content": "(i) \"Actual service\" of an employee means the period which he spends on actual duty and also includes-\n(a) the period covered by any casual leave but no other leave granted to him ;\n(b) the University vacation ; and\n(c) the University holidays except such holidays as may fall within such vacations or leave other than casual leave that may be granted to him.\n(ii) \"Competent authority\" in relation to the grant of any leave to an employee under these Rules means the officer of authority authorised by these Rules to grant such leave to the employee.\n(iii) \"Heads of Administrative Departments\" for the purpose of these Rules shall mean and include the Registrar, the treasurer, the Secretary of the University Classes, the Controller of Examinations, the Executive Engineer, the Librarian and the Principal, University Law College.\n(iv) \"Duty\" means what an employee is bound or required to do by the terms of his appointment.\n(v) \"Employee\" means and includes the vice-Chancellor and other officers of the University, all teachers of the University and any other persons employed by the University, whole-time or part-time.\n(vi) \"Senior grade employee\" means a person holding a post the minimum of whose scale of pay is Rs. 1,000 or above.\n(vii) \"Permanent employee\" for the purpose of the Rules means an employee appointed substantively on probation to a permanent post and an employee appointed for a term under provision of the Gauhati University Act, 1947 as amended.\n(viii) \"Part-time employee\" shall mean a person appointed as such on fixed monthly pay or allowance.\n(ix) \"Employee in the vacation department\" means an employee serving in a vacation department but does not include any office and laboratory staff, care-takers, darbans, day-chowkidars, night-watchmen, malis, sweepers and such other employee of department as may be specified in this behalf by the Vice-Chancellor.\n(x) \"Retirement\" means termination of service of an employee or attaining the age of sixty years or on completing a term under provision of the Gauhati University Act.\n(xi) \"Holiday\" means-(a) a Sundary, or (b) a holiday prescribed and notified as such in relation to any office or department of the University or any College or other institution, or (b) a day on which such office, department, college or institution is ordered by the Vice-Chancellor to be closed by a notice in writing.\n(xii) \"Leave\" means the privilege allowed to an employee of being absent from duty.\n(xiii) \"Lien\" means the title of an employee to hold substantively either immediately or on termination of a period or periods of absence, a permanent post under the University to which he has been appointed substantively.\n(xiv) \"Pay\" means the basic pay in respect of a whole-time appointment, special pay, personal pay, house allowance and such other emoluments as may be specially classed as pay; but an allowance for holding part-time appointment under the University shall not be included in pay.\n(xv) \"Vacation department\" means the teaching departments of the University, a constituent college or any other institution as is allowed by the University to have regular vacations during which employees serving that department are permitted at the discretion of the Vice-Chancellor to be absent from duty.",
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"content": "(b) When the day which immediately precedes precedes the day on which an employee's leave commences or which immediately follows the day on which his leave is due to end, is a holiday or is included in series of holidays or in a vacation, such holidays or vacation may be combined with the leave and he may be permitted, as the case may be, to relinquish his duty and leave his station at the close of the day proceeding such holidays or vacation or to return to his station and resume his duty on the forenoon of the day following such holidays or vacation :\n(c) When an employee is permitted under Clause (b) to combine leave with any vacation or holidays his leave shall be deemed to commence or end, as the case may be, on the day on which it would have commenced or ended if it had not been combined with such vacation or holidays :\n(b) No leave shall be granted to an employee who has been placed under suspension.",
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"title": "4. Kinds of leave.",
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"content": "(a) Ordinary or special casual leave.\n(b) Earned leave.\n(c) Leave on half pay.\n(d) Extraordinary leave.\n(e) Maternity leave.\n(f) Quarantine leave, and\n(g) Study leave.",
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"title": "5. Ordinary casual leave.",
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"title": "6. Special casual leave.",
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"content": "(b) If an officer or teacher of the University participates in a literary, scientific or educational conference or seminar or cultural or athletic activities and the Vice-Chancellor has permitted him to do so on sufficient grounds of if an officer or teacher of the University is required to perform any casual assignment in any institution other than the Gauhati University with prior permission of the Vice-Chancellor, he may be granted, at the discretion of the Vice-Chancellor, special casual leave up to such number of days as may specifically be required for the purpose.",
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"content": "(i) if he is a permanent employee serving in a vacation department, one twenty-second of the period of his actual service plus one eleventh of the period, if any, during which he may have been detained on duty during any vacation under the orders of the Vice-Chancellor or the Head of the Administrative Department concerned ; provided that he has not been paid any extra remuneration for the period of such detention.\n(ii) if he is a temporary employee serving in a vacation department and has no lien on any permanent post he shall not be eligible to any earned leave for the first year of service. On completion of one year s continuous service he will be eligible for leave terms indicated under (i) above. But in the first year of service he will be eligible to earned leave equivalent to one-eleventh of the period, if any, during which he may be detained on duty during vacation under the orders of the Vice-Chancellor or the Head of the Administrative Department concerned ; provided that he has not been paid any extra remuneration for the period of such detention.\n(iii) if he is a permanent employee serving in an office or department other than a vacation department one-eleventh of the period of his annual service; and\n(iv) if he is a temporary employee serving in an office or department other than a vacation department and has to lien on any permanent post, one twenty-second of the period of his actual service for the first year of service. On completion of one year's continuous service he will be eligible for leave terms indicated under (iii) above :",
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"title": "8. Leave on half pay.",
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"content": "(a) if he is a permanent employee one-twenty-second of the period of his actual service.\n(b) if he is a temporary employee having no lien on any permanent post or a part-time employee one-thirtieth of the period of his actual service.",
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"title": "9. Leave for tuberculosis, etc.",
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"content": "(i) The medical officer-in-charge of a recognised sanatorium or hospital in the case of an employee undergoing treatment in a recognised sanatorium or hospital.\n(ii) A tuberculosis, cancer, or leprosy specialist as the case may be recognised as such by the University in the case of an employee receiving treatment by such a specialist.",
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"title": "10. Extraordinary leave.",
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"content": "(a) when no other leave is admissible to hi, or\n(b) although other leave is admissible, he applies in writing for the grant of extraordinary leave.\n(ii) Extraordinary leave for holding appointment. - Notwithstanding anything contained in Clause (i) the Executive Council may grant on the request from the institution concerned, and on application of the employee extra-ordinary leave to an employee who has been confirmed in the post held by him and has put in service of not less than 5 years, to hold an appointment under a Government, a University, a Research Institute or other similar important institution for a period not exceeding 3 years, if in the opinion of the Executive Council such leave does not prejudice the interest of the University, the Executive Council shall, however, be competent to extend the aforesaid period by a period not exceeding six months in very exceptional cases.\n(iii) Notwithstanding any other leave which may be due to the employee under nay other rule the entire period for which an employee holds an appointment outside the University under Clause (ii) shall be without pay or allowances and the period so spent shall not be counted for future increments or for gratuity but shall be counted for seniority.\n(iv) The services of an employee, in case of his failure to return to duty immediately at the end of the period of leave granted under Clause (ii) shall be terminated from the date of commencement of the period of leave granted under the same clause :",
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"title": "11. Maternity leave.",
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"content": "(ii) Leave of any other kind except casual leave may be granted in combination with maternity leave if the application is supported by medical certificate from the University Medical Officer, or if the competent authority so permits, from some other registered medical practitioner acceptable to it.\n(iii) Maternity leave granted to an employee shall not be debited against her leave account.",
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"title": "12. Quarantine leave.",
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"title": "13. Study leave.",
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"content": "(a) Study leave may be granted only when the interest of the University or of a department of the University or a constituent college so requires.\n(b) All applications for study leave shall, before submission to the Executive Council, be examined by the Dean of the Faculty and the Head of the Department concerned who shall submit their recommendations, if any, to the Vice-Chancellor.\n(c) Study leave may be granted only to such permanent whole-time employees as have been confirmed in the service of the University and are not due to retire from the service of the University within five years of their return from such leave.\n(d) An employee who applies for study leave shall give a written undertaking that he shall serve the University for at least five-years on hi return from such leave.\n(e) Study leave may be granted to an employee only once during the entire period of his service in the University subject to a maximum period equivalent to the duration of the course approved by the Executive Council.\n(f) The employee shall, on his return from duty leave after completion of his study, submit to the Executive Council a consolidated report on his study and achievements during the study leave together with the certificates of the examination, if any, passed by him.",
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"title": "14. Leave salary.",
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"title": "15. Powers of the Executive Council.",
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"title": "16. Authorities competent to sanction leave.",
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"content": "Authority\nAuthority\nNature of leave\nNature of leave\nExtent of power\nExtent of power\n(i)\nVice-Chancellor\n(a) Ordinary and special casual leave\nTo the full extent to all senior grade officers and heads of\n\t\t\t\tteaching departments.\n(b) All other kinds of leave except study leave.\nTo the extent of one month in the case of all senior grade\n\t\t\t\tofficers except himself and professors and of a period beyond one\n\t\t\t\tmonth in case of other employees.\n(ii)\nRegistrar\nAll other kinds of leave except study leave\nTo the extent of one month in case of all employees other than\n\t\t\t\tsenior grade officers and teachers.\n(iii)\nSecretary, University Classes.\nOrdinary and special casual leave\nTo the full extent to the teachers except professors and heads\n\t\t\t\tof the teaching departments on the recommendation of the Head of\n\t\t\t\tthe Department concerned.\n(iv)\nHead of the administrative departments of the University.\nOrdinary and special casual leave.\nTo the full extent in respect of the employees under his\n\t\t\t\tadministrative control provided that in case of teaching\n\t\t\t\tdepartments with laboratories and museum, the application for\n\t\t\t\tleave must be recommended by the Head of the Department\n\t\t\t\tconcerned.\n(ii) The authority granting leave will be expected to see that leave is not applied for on flimsy grounds and that adequate arrangement is made for ensuring that work in the University is carried on during the absence of the employee on leave. No employee should be granted earned leave more than once in course of the month except on medical grounds.\n(iii) Every authority competent to sanction casual leave shall be responsible for the proper maintenance of a casual leave register in Form No. 2 (leave) in respect of employee under his administrative control.\n(iv) A copy of every order granting leave other than casual leave shall be communicated to the Registrar and the treasurer.\n(v) In forwarding application from any of his subordinates for short leave of absence the officer concerned should suggest arrangements for carrying on his work during absence.\n(vi) When a University employee proceeds on or return from leave of any nature, he should immediately report the fact direct to the officer who granted him leave as well as to the Treasurer.\n(vii) Employees proceeding on leave of any description except casual leave must, before the departure, furnish the Registrar and the Treasurer and the Head of the Department to which they belong, as the case may be, with some addresses through which communications can, if necessary, be made to them during the period of their leave.",
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"title": "17. Doubts and difficulties.",
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"number": "19",
"title": "19. Leave Rules for employees of the University Press.",
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"number": "20",
"title": "20. Leave rules for research fellows and scholars of the University.",
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"content": "(b) Maternity Leave. - Maternity leave may be granted to a woman fellow or scholar as per provision under Rule 11 of these Rules.",
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