1) First 10 Years of Service = 1/24 2) After 10 years of Service =1/18 3) After 20 years of service =1/12 Accummulation of Earned leave shall be permissible to any extent but the maximum Earned leave that may be allowed at a time may be restricted to 120 days, an employee proceeding on leave may be paid, on his written request of , course, at the discretion of the sanctioning authority, his salary in advance for each completed calendar month.
if any employee is discharged or dismissed or retires from service or leaves service, he shall be entitled to pay in lieu of his unavailed leave at his credit at that time subject to a maximum of 6 months.
12.4 STUDY LEAVE Study leave may be granted to an employee for the purpose of undertaking studies of scientific, technical or similar nature or to undergo special course of instruction or training in or outside.
India on such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the Governing Board.
12.5 The female employee shall be granted maternity leave on full pay for a period not exceeding three months. The grant of leave should be so regulated that (1) the date of confinement falls within the period of this leave, and (2) the leave does not extend more than six weeks from the date of confinement . this leave may be extended to six months on medical grounds.
13. AUTHORITY TO SANCTION LEAVE leave of all kinds will be sanctioned either by the Director or by any officer of the Authority so authorised by him to the extent of such authority.
14. General Every application for any kind of leave under the above Rules must be made in writing for obtaining the prior permission of the sanctioning authority.
14.1 The sanctioning authority will issue orders on such applications in writing indication whether such leave has been granted, refused or modified in duration or timing.
14.2 If an employee while on leave desired an extension thereof, he must make an application to that effect in writing to the sanctioning authority, sufficiently in advance to enable him to consider such application and pass necessary orders to be communicated to the applicant before the expiry of the leave originally sanctioned. No leave or extension of leave can be deemed to have been granted unless an order to that effect has been passed and communicated to the employee concerned.
14.3 If an employee remains absent beyond the period of leave originally granted or subsequently extended, he loses his lien of his post unless he returns to duty within a reasonable short period and gives explanation of his overstay to the satisfaction of the Authority.
14.4 Where exigencies of service so require, discretion to refuse, curtail or revoke leave of any description is reserved to the sanctioning authority and the employee already on leave may, therefore be recalled to resume duty by that authority.
15. PUBLIC HOLIDAYS The Authority will observe public holidays as observed by the officers of the Punjab Government, provided that the Regional Offices will not observe Saturdays (excepting second Saturday) as a holiday . Provided further that the Director or any other officer authorized by him in this behalf, may require any employee or class of employees to attend to their duties on public holidays also. The working hours for Regional offices shall, however, be form 10.00 A.M to 5.00 P.M with half an hour's lunch break from 1.30 p.m to 2.00 p.m 16 AMENDMENT OF RULES The Authority reserves the right to modify/cancel or amend all or any of these rules and issue supplementary rules or amendments there to. The Authority also reserves the right to give effect to the modifications/ cancellations or amendments of the rules and/ or supplementary rules from the date of issue or from any other period.
17 INTERPRETATION OF RULES The Authority reserves the power to interpret these rules and/or the supplementary rules. The decision of the Authority shall be final.
18. JOINING TIME IN CASE OF TRANSFERS Joining time may be granted to an employee to enable him:
a) to join a new post at a new station on relinquishing charge of his old post;
b) to join a new post in a new station on return from leave.