IREC Rule No.524: Calculation Of Leave On Average Pay
524. Calculation Of Leave On Average Pay:-
(1) Leave on Average pay shall be credited to the leave account of a railway servant at the rate of 2½ days for each completed calendar month of service which he is likely to render in a half year in which he is appointed.
(2) (a) The credit for the half year in which a railway servant is due to retire or resigns from the service shall be afforded only at the rate of 2½ days per completed calendar month up to the date of retirement or resignation.
(b) When a railway servant is removed or dismissed from service or dies while in service, credit of earned leave shall be allowed at the rate of 2½ days per completed calendar month up to the end of the calendar month preceding the calendar month in which he is removed or dismissed from service or dies in service.
(3) If a railway servant has availed of extraordinary leave and/or some period of absence has been treated as dies non during the previous half year, the credit to be afforded to his leave account at the commencement of the next half year shall be reduced by 1/10th of the period of such leave and/or dies non subject to a maximum of 15 days.
(4) While affording credit of Leave on Average Pay fraction of a day shall be rounded off to the nearest day.
[Authority: RBE No.24/1997, No.E(P&A)I-2000/CPC/ALE-5, 07.02.1997, ACS No.43]
Railway Ministry’s Decision:
Concession to Railways servants on the North-East Frontier Railway – Once in a calendar year, the staff proceeding on leave on average pay to or via Calcutta, Lucknow or Patna will be granted additional leave, not debitable to their leave account on the following scale;
(i) Staff headquarters at Siliguri station or at stations west of Siliguri – 2 days
(ii) Staff headquarters at stations last of Siliguri but on the North Bank of Brahmaputra, including Darjeeling-Himalaya Section and at Pandu (Guwahati) – 4 days
(iii) Staff head quarters at stations to the east of Pandu – 6 days.
[Authority: No.E(G)58AD-I, 15.02.1958]