All temporary and permanent employees are eligible for Earned Leave.
Earned Leave is admissible for periods spent on duty and eligible leave.
Completed months shall be considered and fraction of a month shall be ignored.
2. Procedure of Earning / Crediting
Leave Rules were liberalized with effect from 01-01-1978.
Leave will be credited in advance in two spells every year:
1st January
1st July
Temporary employees are credited with 8 days for each calendar half-year.
Permanent employees are credited with 15 days for each calendar half-year.
Maximum earning of Earned Leave is 30 days per year.
Permanent employees earn leave at the rate of 2½ days for every completed month of service.
If appointed temporarily in the middle of a half-year:
1 day each for first two months
2 days for third month and so on
If an employee is on Extraordinary Leave (EOL) during the preceding half-year,
advance credit for the present half-year shall be reduced by
1/10th of the EOL period,
subject to a maximum reduction of 15/8 days.
Maximum accumulation of Earned Leave enhanced from
240 days to 300 days
w.e.f. 16-09-2005
vide G.O.Ms.No.232, Finance (FR.I) Department.
Previous Maximum Limits:
Permanent Superior Employees
01-06-1964 to 30-06-1983 → 180 days
01-07-1983 to 15-09-2005 → 240 days
Permanent Last Grade Employees
17-08-1967 to 30-06-1983 → 180 days
01-07-1983 to 15-09-2005 → 240 days
3. Availment of Earned Leave
Earned Leave may be availed on medical grounds or private affairs.
Permanent superior employees may avail EL up to
180 days at a time,
subject to leave balance.
Permanent last grade employees may avail EL up to
120 days at a time.
Earned Leave can be combined with other kinds of leave.
Public Holidays, Optional Holidays and Compensatory Leave
may be prefixed or suffixed.
The earlier limit of 180 days on availing Commuted Leave
in conjunction with EL was removed.
4. Leave Salary
Full Basic Pay along with HRA, CCA and admissible allowances
shall be paid up to six months.
5. Surrender of Earned Leave
Introduced from 13-08-1969
vide G.O.Ms.No.238.
Permanent Employees
15 days surrender after 12 months gap.
30 days surrender after 24 months gap based on leave balance.
If balance exceeds 285 days on 30th June,
gap condition need not be observed.
Surrender Leave can be availed only once in a financial year.
Surrender Leave shall be sanctioned from the date of application.
Temporary Employees
Temporary employees may surrender 15 days
after 24 months gap.
6. Validity
Sanction order is valid for
90 days
from the date of issue.
7. Leave Salary during Surrender Leave
Leave salary shall be calculated considering 30 days per month.
It includes Pay, OCA, HRA, AHRA and CCA.
Conveyance Allowance is not admissible.
HRA is admissible even to employees residing in Government quarters.
Interim Relief shall not be paid.
Expenditure is debitable to the concerned Head of Account.
8. Recasting of Leave Account
When a Government servant is initially appointed temporarily
and later regularized retrospectively,
the leave account shall be recast from the date of regularization.
Leave already availed between retrospective regularization
and issue of orders shall not be altered.
Additional leave becoming due after recasting
shall be availed only prospectively.
