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Notifications: Specification of Degrees and other matters

and necessary in the interest of the university.

(iii) Study leave shall not be granted to a teacher who is due to retire within five years of the
date on which he/she is expected to return to duty after the expiry of study leave.
(iv) Study leave may be granted not more than twice during one’s career. However, the
maximum of Study leave admissible during the entire service should not exceed five
years.
(v) No teacher who has been granted study leave shall be permitted to alter substantially the
course of study or the programme of research without the permission of the Executive
Council/Syndicate. When the course of study fails short of study leave sanctioned, the
teacher shall resume duty on the conclusion of the course of study unless the previous
approval of the Executive Council/Syndicate to treat the period of Shortfall as ordinary
leave has been obtained.
(vi) (a) Subject to the provisions of sub-clauses (vii) and (viii) below, study leave may
be granted on full pay up to two years extendable by one year at the discretion of the
university.

(vii) The amount of scholarship, fellowship or other financial assistance that a teacher,
granted study leave, has been awarded will not preclude his/her being granted study
leave with pay and allowances but the scholarship, etc., so received shall be taken into
account in determining the pay and allowance on which the study leave may be granted.
The Foreign scholarship/fellowship would be offset against pay only if the fellowship
is above a specified amount, which is to be determined from time to time, based on the
cost of living for a family in the country in which the study is to be undertaken. In the
case of an Indian fellowship. which exceeds the salary of the teacher, the salary would
be forfeited.
(viii) Subject to the maximum period of absence from duty on leave not exceeding three
years, study leave may be combined with earned leave, half-pay leave, extraordinary
leave or vacation, provided that the earned leave at the credit of the teacher shall be
availed or at the discretion of the teacher. A teacher who is selected to a higher post
during study leave, will be placed in that position and get the higher scale only after
joining the post.
(ix) A teacher granted study leave shall on his/her return and re-joining the service of
the university may be eligible to the benefit Of the annual increment(s) which he/she
would have earned in the course oi time if he/she had not proceeded on study leave. No
teacher shall however, be eligible to receive arrears of increments.
(x) Study leave shall count as service for pension/contributory provident fund, provided
the teacher joins the university on the expiry of his/her study leave.

(xi) Study leave granted to a teacher shall be deemed to be cancelled in case it is not availed
of within 12 months of its sanction.

Provided that where study leave granted has been so cancelled, he teacher may apply
again for such leave.
(xii) A teacher availing himself/herself of study leave shall undertake that he/she shall serve
the university for a continuous period of at least three years to be calculated from the
date of his/her, resuming duty after expiry of the study leave.

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