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Casual Leave - Annexure VII

EXECUTIVE INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING CLs AND Sp.CLs
ANNEXURE VII TO FUNDAMENTAL RULES (See Ruling (4) under Rule 85)
ORDINARY CASUAL LEAVE

Casual leave is not provided for in the Fundamental Rules and is a concession to enable Government servants in special circumstances to be absent from duty for short period without such absence being treated as leave under the leave rules applicable to the Government servant concerned.

Maximum period of casual leave that can be availed of in  a calendar year is only 15 days.

The unavailed part of leave will lapse at the close of the calendar year.

Casual leave may be combined with optional holidays or Sundays or other authorised public holidays provided the resulting period of absence does not exceed 10 days.

A register of CL should be maintained.

In the case of Casual leave to a purely temporary and emergency Government servants the sanctioning authority will use its discretion having regard to the length of service put in by such Government servant.

 A Government servant may be granted casual leave for half a day either from 10-30 to 1-30 p.m. or from 2-00 p.m. to 5-00 p.m.

For each 3 or more late late attendances on permission - 1 CL will be deducted
(Go.Ms.No.574, GAD(ser-c) Dept., dt: 3-7-1971)