IREC Rule No.508: Combination Of Holidays With Leave

508.  Combination Of Holidays With Leave:-

(1)   When the date immediately preceding the day on which a railway servant’s leave begins or immediately following the day on which his leave expires is a holiday or one of a series of holidays, the railway servant may leave his station at the close of the day before, or return to it on the day following such holidays, provided that;

(a)   His transfer or assumption of charge does not involve the handing or taking over of securities or moneys other than a permanent advance;

(b)   His early departure does not entail a correspondingly early transfer from another station of a railway servant to perform his duties; and

(c)   The delay in his return does not involve a corresponding delay in the transfer to another station of the railway servant who was performing his duties during his absence or in the discharge from railway service of a person temporarily appointed to it.

(2)   In the case of leave on medical certificate:

(a)   When a Railway servant is certified medically unwell to attend office, holidays if any immediately preceding the day he is so certified shall be allowed automatically to be prefixed to leave and the holidays if any immediately succeeding the day he is so certified (including that day) shall be treated as part of the leave; and

(b)   When a Railway servant is certified medically fit for joining duty, holidays if any, succeeding the day he is so certified shall be allowed automatically be allowed to be suffixed to the leave and holidays, if any, preceding the day he is so certified (including that day) shall be treated as part of the leave.

(3)   On condition that the departing railway servant remains responsible for the moneys in charge, the competent authority may in any particular case waive the application of clause (a) of proviso to the sub-rule (1).

(4)   Unless the authority competent to grant leave in any case otherwise directs;

(a)   If holidays are prefixed to leave, the leave and any consequent rearrangement of pay and allowances take effect from the day after the holidays; and

(b)   If holidays are suffixed to leave, the leave is treated as having terminated and any consequent rearrangement of pay and allowances takes effect from the day on which the leave would have ended if holidays had not been suffixed.

Railway Ministry’s Decision:

All holidays notified locally by Railway Administrations may be treated as holidays for the purpose of Rules 506 and Rule 508. Since the declaration of holidays as recognized holidays rests with the President the lists of holidays should be approved by that authority.

The above decision does not apply to offices which follow holidays declared by Central and State Government or Union Territories.