| KINDS OF LEAVE | SUPERIOR SERVICE |
BASIC SERVICE |
| TEMPORARY/ PROBATIONER |
APPROVED PROBATIONER | TEMPORARY/ PROBATIONER | APPROVED PROBATIONER |
| I. EARNED LEAVE [G.O.Ms.157 Personnel & Administrative Reforms (FR III)Dept. dated: 24.06.1994] |
Leave to be credited | At the rate of 2 ½ days for every completed 2 calendar months in a half year, subject to a maximum of 30 days- TNLR 20. Leave to be credited
15days ( | at the rate of 2 ½ days for every completed calendar month)each on the first day of January and July of every calendar year, subject to a maximum of 240 days - TNLR 8(a), (b). Leave to be credited | At the rate of 2 ½ days for every completed 2 calendar months in a half year, subject to a maximum of 30 days - TNLR20. Leave to be credited | I)More than one year regular service but less than 5 years of regular service – at the rate of 2 ½ days for every completed 2 calendar months in a half year, subject to a maximum of 30 days –TNLR 17(1). ii)Completed
5 years of regular service- 15days each on the first day of January and July of every calendar year, subject to a maximum of 240 days -
TNLR 17(1), TNLR 8(a),(b).
| Temporary Government Servants in Superior service and Basic servants who have put in less than 5 years of service are not entitled for the benefit of advance credit. |
For the purpose of crediting earned leave, fractions of a day shall be rounded off to the nearest day- Explanation (i) under TNLR 8. If a Government servant is on leave on the last day of any particular half of a calendar year ,earned leave shall be credited on the first of the succeeding half-year, provided that the authority competent to grant leave has reason to believe that the Government servant will return to duty on the expiry of leave- Expln (ii). No credit shall be given for fraction of a month. At the close of each half year the balance at credit should be restricted to the maximum limit of 240 days. If the earned leave at the credit of a permanent Government servant in Superior service or a Government Servant in Basic Service who has completed 5 years of regular service as on the last day of December or June is 240 days or less but more than 225 days, the advance credit of 15 days earned leave on the first day of January or July to be afforded shall, instead of being credited in the leave account, be kept separately and first adjusted against the earned leave that the Government Servant takes or surrenders during that half year and the balance, if any, shall be credited to the leave account at the close of the half year, subject to the condition that the balance of such earned leave plus leave already at credit does not exceed the maximum limit of 240 days. If a permanent Government Servant in Superior service or a Government Servant in Basic Service who has completed 5 years of regular service availed of extraordinary leave (with or without Medical Certificate)and /or some period of absence has been treated as non duty (dies-non) in a half-year, the credit to be given to his leave account at the commencement of the next half-year shall be reduced by 1/10th of the period of such leave and /or dies-non, subject to a maximum of 15 days. In the case of Temporary Government Servant in Superior service and Basic servants who have put in less than 5 years of service, the Earned Leave to be credited during a half-year shall be reduced by 1/20th of the period of such leave and /or dies-non, subject to a maximum of 8 days. If a probationer in Superior service completes his probation, say, in the middle of a month, credit shall be given for the month as for a probationer and
