GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
ABSTRACT
Unauthorised absence - Willful and prolonged absence
from duty without proper leave - Imposition of Major Penalty - Orders -issued.
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION (SER.C) DEPT.
G.O.Ms.No.260 Dated: 04-09-2003
ORDER:
According to sub-rule (1) of rule 3 of the Andhra Pradesh
Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1964, every Government employee shall be
devoted to duty and shall maintain absolute integrity, discipline, impartiality
and a sense of propriety.
2. Instances have come to notice that some of the
employees are absenting to duty without prior sanction of any leave not only
for days, but for years together. After
a long gap of absence, such employees are reporting to duty and submitting the
application for sanction of leave putting forth unconvincing reasons.
3. According to F.R. 18, and Rule 5-A of the Andhra
Pradesh Leave Rules, 1933, no Government servant should be granted leave of any
kind for a period exceeding five years and that, willful absence from duty not
covered by grant of any leave shall be treated as 'dies-non' for all purposes
viz., increment, leave and pension as per the notes- I there under. No
inference can be drawn from these rules that disciplinary action against a
member of service cannot be taken unless he is continuously absent for more
than five years without any sanctioned leave.
Thus, it is not necessary for the competent authority to wait for a
period of five years for initiating disciplinary action against the member of
service who remained absent without any leave and in such cases disciplinary
action may be initiated by following the procedure laid down in rule 20 of the
Andhra Pradesh Civil Services (CC&A) Rules 1991.
4. The Government hereby direct that in all cases of
unauthorized absence to duty for a continuous period exceeding 'one year', the
penalty of removal from service shall be imposed on the Government employee,
after duly following the procedure laid down in the Andhra Pradesh Civil
Services (CCA) Rules, 1991.
5. All Departments of Secretariat, Heads of Departments
and the District Collectors shall follow the above orders scrupulously.
(By order and in the name of the
Governor of Andhra Pradesh)
Dr. MOHAN KANDA
Chief Secretary to
Government
