IREC Rule No.548: Advance Of Leave Salary

548.  Advance Of Leave Salary:-

A railway servant (both permanent and temporary) including a railway servant on foreign service proceeding on leave for a period not less than 30 days may be allowed an advance in lieu of leave salary up to a month’s pay and allowance subject to the following conditions:

(1)   The advance of leave salary shall be sanctioned in whole rupees.

(2)  No advance may be granted when the leave is taken for less than a month/30 days.

(3)   The amount of advance should be restricted to the amount of leave salary for the first month of leave that is clearly admissible to the railway servant after deductions on account of Income Tax, Provident Fund, House Rent, repayments of advances, etc. so that there is no financial risk involved.

(4)   The advance should be adjusted in full in the leave salary bill in respect of the leave availed of. In case where the advance cannot be so adjusted in full the balance will be recovered from the next payment of pay or leave salary.

(5)   The advance may be sanctioned by the General Manager, or by any officer to whom the power may be specially delegated in the case of railway servants in Groups ‘A’,  ‘B’, ’C’ & ‘D’.

(6)   The advance in respect of temporary railway servants will be sanctioned subject to the furnishing of surety of a permanent railway servant

(7)   The amount of advance will be debited to the Head of Account to which the pay etc. of the railway servant is debited and the adjustment of the advance shall be watched by the Accounts Officer concerned.