GOVERNMENT
OF ANDHRA PRADESH
FINANCE (FR.I) DEPARTMENT
FINANCE (FR.I) DEPARTMENT
Cir.Memo.No.15620/C/250/FR.I/2008
Dated:04.06.2008
Sub: Earned Leave -
Surrender of Earned Leave - Encashment during the Financial year 2008-09 -
Instructions Issued.
Ref: 1. G.O.Ms.No. 172, F & P (FW. FR. I)
Dept., dt. 01.07.1974.
2. G.O.Ms.No. 221, F
& P (FW. FR. I) Dept., dt. 23.08.1974.
3. Cir. Memo. No.
50798 / 1063 / FR. I / 79 - 1, Fin. (FR. I) Dept., dt. 22.11.1979.
4. Memo. No.
8672-A/305/FR.I/89-l, Fin.(FR.I) Dept., dt.13-04-1989.
In
the Government order 1st cited, instructions were issued permitting the
Government employees to surrender earned leave not exceeding 15 days once in a
year without actually going on leave and to receive leave salary in lieu of the
leave so surrendered. If the interval between two surrenders is 24 months or
longer, the Government employees were permitted to surrender earned leave not
exceeding 30 days.
2. In the reference 2nd
cited it was ordered that temporary Government servants appointed under Rule 10
(a) (i) of the A.P. State and Subordinate Service Rules will also be eligible
to surrender fifteen days of earned leave when the earned leave at their credit
is thirty days as on the date of surrender of leave, once at an interval of
twenty-four months.
3. Government have
decided and hereby issue instructions that the schedule for the surrender /
encashment of earned leave for the current financial year 2008-2009 to regulate
the expenditure as follows: -
September
& October, 2008 - Last Grade
Employees
November
& December, 2008 - NGO including
Police Personnel and Teachers
January
& February, 2009 - Gazetted
Officers
4. Government may permit
the employees who have a balance of more than 285 days of E.L. as on 30th June
2008 to surrender E.L. without waiting for their turn.
5. Government hereby
permit those All-India Service Officers, who have a balance of more than 285
days of earned leave as on 30th June, 2008 to surrender earned leave without
waiting for their turn i.e., January and February, 2009.
6. Government hereby
clarify that 15 days are to be allowed in one financial year and 30 days in two
financial years and the condition of 12 / 24 months mentioned in the G.O., 1st
cited is need not be followed in those cases of All India Service Officers, who
have a balance of more than 285 days as on 30th June, 2008.
7. Government hereby
also extend the facility of encashment of earned leave to the All-India Service
Officers soon after their central posting is received, without waiting for
their tum i.e., January and February, 2009.
8. Further as per the
instructions contained in the Cir. Memo. 3rd cited that in the case of employees who surrender
earned leave as on 1st January or 1st
July in any year, the number of days of earned leave so surrendered should, in the first instance, be deducted
from the earned leave account and
thereafter the advance credit of earned leave as per eligibility due for that
half year be added as on 1st January / 1st July, are also to be followed during the current financial year
2008-2009.
9. In the Memo., 4th
cited instructions have been issued that the
Government employees who are due to retire before the period fixed
for the surrender of earned leave in the
Memo.No.8903/69-A/241/FR.l/89- l, dt.31-03-1989
may be allowed to encash the earned leave if they so desire, before the period when the surrender
of earned leave normally becomes due.
These instructions shall also be followed during the financial year
2008-2009.
10. The Departments of
Secretariat / Heads of Departments are requested to keep these instructions in
view while sanctioning the surrender of earned leave for purpose of encashment
during the financial year 2008 - 2009.
11. All the Treasury
Officers / State Audit Authorities, Pay and Accounts Office, Hyderabad and
Deputy Financial Advisor, Projects / Directors of Accounts of Major Projects
are requested to follow these instructions scrupulously while dealing with the
bills for encashment of earned leave during the financial year 2008-2009.
12. These instructions
are available on the Internet and can be accessed at the address http:/
/aponline.gov.in.
Vasudha
Mishra
Secretary
to Government (FP)
