Railway Services (Liberalised Leave) Rules, 1949 - Part 3A
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Railway Services (Liberalised Leave) Rules, 1949
Part – 3A
Grant and Return from Leave
511. Application for leave:
An application for leave or for extension of leave shall be made to the authority competent to grant such or extension in the form at Annexure-I.
512. Grant of leave - Priority of claim to leave:
In case where all application for leave cannot, in the interest of the public service, be granted, an authority competent to grant should, in deciding which applications should be granted, take into the account the following considerations-
(a) The railway servants who can, for the time being best be spared.
(b) The amount of leave due to the various applicants.
(c) The amount and character of the service rendered by each applicant since he last returned from leave.
(d) The fact that any such applicant was compulsorily recalled from his last leave.
(e) The fact that any such applicant has been refused leave in the public interest.
Railway Ministry's Decision-1: The order sanctioning leave on average pay/half average pay to Railway servant shall indicate the balances of such leave at his credit. [Refer: E(P&A) 176 LE 3/1 dt.11-03-1977]
Railway Ministry's Decision-2: In order to save time, effort and expense, it has been decided that instead of issuing individual leave orders should, as for as possible, be issued in a consolidated form for each category of staff separately, if not already being done. The consolidated leave orders may be issued once in a fortnight, say, on 20th of the month in respect of persons who proceeded on leave between 1st and 15th and on 5th of the next month in respect of those who proceeded on leave between 16th and the last working day of the previous month. These dates may, if necessary be varied to suit local convenience. Exception may be made, if necessary, in the types of cases mentioned below:
(i) Where the Railway servant and his leave sanctioning authority are located at different stations, and
(ii) Where officiating arrangement is to be made in the leave vacancy.
Where a Railway servant is proceeding on leave before the date of issue of the consolidate leave order, the act whether the leave applied for by him has been sanctioned or not may informally be ascertained from administration section by the individual concerned. The general principle should, however, be that after the leave has been recommended by the Railway servant's immediate controlling authority, the leave may be deemed to have been sanctioned unless he is given an intimation to the contrary.
513. Leave account:
A leave account shall be maintained in the prescribed forms for each railway servant by the Accounts Officer in the case of Group 'A' and Group 'B' railway servants and by the Head of the Office or an Officer authorised by him in the case of Group 'C' and Group 'D' railway servants.
514. Verification of title to leave:
The amount of leave due to a railway servant is the balance leave at his credit in the leave account. No leave shall be granted to a railway servant until a report regarding its admissibility has been obtained from the Authority maintaining the leave account.
515. Leave when not to be granted:
Leave shall not be granted to a railway servant whom a Competent Punishing Authority has decided to dismiss, remove or compulsorily retire from railway service.
516. Recall to duty before expiry of leave:
In case a Railway servant is recalled to duty before the expiry of his leave, such recall to duty shall be treated as compulsory in all cases and the railway servant shall be entitled:-
(a) If the leave from which he is recalled is in India, to be treated as on duty from the date on which he starts from the station to which he is ordered, and to draw-
(i) travelling allowance under rules made in this behalf for the journey; and
(ii) leave salary until he joins his post, at the same rate at which he would have drawn it but for recall to duty.
(b) If the leave from which he is recalled is out of India, to count the time spent on the voyage to India as duty for purposes of calculating leave, and to receive-
(i) leave salary, during the voyage to India and for the period from the date of landing in India to the date of joining the post at the same rate at which he would have drawn it but for recall to duty;
(ii) a free passage to India;
(iii) refund of his passage from India if he has not completed half the period of his leave by the date of leaving for India on recall, or three months, whichever is shorter;
(iv) duty pass and travelling allowance, under the rules for the time being in force for travel from the place of duty.
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