20 DAYS HPL IN LIEU OF 10 DAYS EL TO TEACHERS

Teachers of central govt. were getting 10 days earned leave apart from CL and RH. Teachers requested for medical leave to the 6th pay commission. Justice Sri Krishna kindly assured to consider the demand of teachers. As per assurance it recommended for 20 days half pay leave for teachers. Teachers were very happy.

Extract of 6 CPC REPORT  At Page No. 268 and page no. 270 under Heading 'Holidays and leave facilities'

and sub Head ' Introduction'

"Various offices of central govt. are allowed 17 closed holidays in a year including 3 National Holidays and 14 Gazetted Holidays. Additionally central Govt. employee are also entitled to avail  2 Restricted Holidays in a Year. Over and above this civilian Central Govt. Employee are allowed 8 days casual leave, 20 days Half Pay Leave (Which can be commuted to medical leave) and earned leave of 30 days.Government employee are also entitled to study leave and extraordinary leave separately."

"Teachers, Principals and Headmaster's working in the schools and from 25/07/1984 Librarians, Laboratory Assistants and Watermen working in schools have not been allowed the facility of the Half Pay leave.This facility needs to be restored for these categories as present rule place them in difficulties at the time of sickness etc. These categories should be made eligible for Half Pay Leave on par with other central Govt. employee."

But DOPT had, through an office memorandum (OM) issued on November 11, 2008, restored the facility of 20 days’ half-pay leave to the teachers, principals, headmasters, librarians, laboratory assistants and watermen working in these schools with effect from September 1, 2008. In this regard, the said OM superseded the Office Memorandum dated September 3, 1981 (regarding leave) and the notification dated July 28, 1984. However, as a consequence, the recent OM withdraws with effect from September 1, 2008 the facility of 10 days’ full-pay earned leave provided to the teachers vide the earlier notifications.

Various Order of DOPT for HPL

• DOPT ORDER FRO HPL
• OLD ORDER OF EL TO TEACHING STAFF
• ENCASHMENT OF LEAVE 
• ENCASHMENT OF EL AND HPL 

As per sixth Central Pay Commission (Extract given above) has nowhere recommended a conversion of earned leave into half-pay leave. It is therefore unfortunate and arbitrary that while implementing the recommendation of the sixth CPC, the Department of Personnel & Training did not examine the issue in its right perspective. On the contrary, the department drew its own conclusions and acted in a manner which is against the true spirit behind the recommendation. Due to the conversion of EL into HPL the teachers will suffer a lot.

All the teacher's community should come into one platform to fight against this order

The teacher's of Navodaya has sent the copies of its memorandum to the secretary of the government of India’s Department of School Education & Literacy and to the New Delhi based commissioner of the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti.

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