Leave on average pay (IREC - 523)
(1) (a) (i) A railway servant permanent or temporary other than one who is serving in a railway school shall be entitled to 30 days leave on average pay in a calendar year.
(ii) The leave account of every railway servant shall be credited with leave on average pay in advance in two installments of 15 days each on the first day of January and July every calendar year.
(b) The leave at the credit of a railway servant at the close of the previous half year shall be carried forward to the next half year subject to the leave so carried forward plus the credit for the half year do not exceed the maximum limit of 300 days.
(c ) A period spent in foreign service shall count as duty for purpose of this rule, if contribution towards leave salary is paid on account of such period.
(d) The following procedure for crediting LAP on 1st Jan./1st July w.e.f. 01.07.1997 in respect of Railway employees may be adopted:--
(i) In case of Railway employees, having at their credit leave on Average Pay of 285 days or less as on 1st January/1st July of a year, LAP of 15 days or proportionately less in respect or retiring persons of those leaving service during the next half year may continue to be credited to their leave account in advance as at present.
(ii) In cases where the Leave on Average Pay at credit as on 1st January/1st July is 300 days or less but more than 285 days, credit of LAP for 15 days may be kept separately and first adjusted against any LAP that the Railway servant may take during the ensuing half year and the balance, if any, credited to the LAP account at the close of the half year subject to the ceiling of 300 days . If the LAP taken during the half year is more than 15 days the amount in excess of 15 days will, however, have to be debited to the leave account.
(Authority:- Railway Boards letter No. E(P&A)I-2000/CPC/LE-3 dt.1.8-2000)
2. Subject to the provisions of rules 503,541 as well as this rule, the maximum leave on average pay that may be granted at a time to a railway servant shall be 180 days.
Calculation of leave on average Pay (IREC - 524)
(1) Leave on Average pay shall be credited to the leave account of a railway servant at the rate of 2 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 2 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 2 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.
(1) While affording credit of Leave on Average Pay fraction of a day shall be rounded off to the nearest day.
(Authority:- Railway Boards letter No. E(P&A)I-2000/CPC/ALE-5 dt.7.2-97)
Railway Ministry 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 debatable to their leave account on the following scale:-
(i) Staff headquarters at Sigurd station or at stations west of Silurian 2 days
(ii) Staff headquarters at stations last of Silurian but on the North Bank of Brahmaputra , including Darjeeling-Himalaya Section and at Pandu (Gwahati). 4 days
(iii) Staff head quarters at stations to the east of Pandu
(Railway Ministry’s letter No.E(G)58AD-I-dt. 15-2-1958). 6 days
