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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

(i) Commuted leave during the entire service shall be limited to a maximum
of 240 days;
(ii) When commuted leave is granted, twice the amount of such leave shall be
debited against the half-pay leave account; and
(iii) The total duration of earned leave and commuted leave taken in conjunction
shall not exceed 240 days, at a time;
Provided that no commuted leave shall be granted under these Regulations,
unless the authority competent to sanction leave has reason to believe that
the teacher would return to duty on its expiry.
VI. Extraordinary Leave

(i) A permanent teacher may be granted extraordinary leave when:
(a) No other leave is admissible; or
(b) Other leave is admissible and the teacher applies in writing for the
grant of extraordinary leave.
(ii) The extraordinary leave shall always be without pay and allowances. It shall not count for an
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, and 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 the 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 the leave is taken on medical certificate. The
total period of absence from duty shall in no case, exceed five years in the entire service
period of the individual.
(iv) The authority empowered to grant leave may commute retrospectively the periods of absence
without the leave into extraordinary leave.
VII. ‘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 a 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 yet to be earned may be waived by the Executive
Council/College Governing Body.

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