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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

(ii) Extraordinary leave shall always be without pay and allowances.
Extraordinary leave shall not count for increment except in the following
cases:
(a) Leave taken on the basis of medical certificates;
(b) Cases where the Vice Chancellor/Principal is satisfied that the leave
was taken due to causes beyond the control of the teacher, such as
inability to join or rejoin duty due to civil commotion or .a natural
calamity, provided the teacher has no other kind of leave to his credit;
(c) Leave taken for pursuing higher studies; and
(d) Leave granted to accept an invitation to a teaching post or fellowship
or research-cum- teaching post or on assignment for technical or
academic work of importance.
(iii) Extraordinary leave may be combined with any other leave except casual
leave and special casual leave, provided that the total period of continuous
absence from duty on leave (including periods of vacation when such
vacation is taken in conjunction with leave) shall not exceed three years
except in cases where leave is taken on medical certificate. The total period
of absence from duty shall in no case exceed five years in the full working
life of the individual.
(iv) The authority empowered to grant leave may commute retrospectively
periods of absence without leave into extraordinary leave.
8.4.7 Leave Not Due
(i) Leave not due, may, at the discretion of the Vice Chancellor/Principal,
be granted to a permanent teacher for a period not exceeding 360 days
during the entire period of service, out of which not more than 90 days at
a time and 180 days in all may be otherwise than on medical certificate.
Such leave shall be debited against the half-pay leave earned by him/her
subsequently.
(ii) ‘Leave not due’ shall not be granted, unless the Vice Chancellor/Principal
is satisfied that as far as can reasonably be foreseen, the teacher will return
to duty on the expiry of the leave and earn the leave granted.
(iii) A teacher to whom ‘leave not due’ is granted shall not be permitted to tender
his/her resignation from service so long as the debit balance in his/her leave
account is not wiped off by active service, or he/she refunds the amount
paid to him/her as pay and allowances for the period not so earned. In a
case where retirement is unavoidable on account of reason of ill health,
incapacitating the teacher for further service, refund of leave salary for the
period of leave still to be earned may be waived by the Executive Council.
Provided that the Executive Council may waive off, in any other
exceptional, for reasons to be recorded in writing, the refund of leave
salary for the period of leave still to be earned.
8.4.8 Maternity Leave
(i) Maternity leave on full pay may be granted to a woman teacher for a
period not exceeding 180 days, to b availed of twice in the entire career.
Maternity leave may also be granted in case of miscarriage including
abortion, subject to the condition that the total leave granted in respect
of this to a woman teacher in her career is not more than 45 days, and the
application for leave is supported by a medical certificate.

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