Casual leave is not a recognized form of leave and is not subject to any rules made by the Government of India. A Government servant on casual leave is not treated as absent from duty and his pay is not intermitted. For administrative reason and in order to ensure, as far as possible, uniformity of treatment in this respect, the following instructions have been laid down by the Director-General of Posts to regulate the grant of casual leave to the officers and staff of the Department of Posts which must be strictly observed:-
Rules Regarding Casual Leave
(a) Casual leave is limited to a maximum of 8 days in a calendar year in respect of all the staff except the Postal Dispensary Staff for whom it is 10 days as prescribed by the Department of Personnel and Training.
(b) The number of days specified is a maximum only and no one can claim the maximum number of days of casual leave as a matter of right.
(c) Casual Leave is intended essentially for short periods of absence due to unexpected contingencies. Such leave should ordinarily be granted for short periods of 1, 2 or 3 days but not exceeding 5 days at any one time. The head of the office may however waive this condition in any individual case if he considers that there are exceptional circumstances justifying a relaxation in this regard. The practice of prefixing or suffixing casual leave to gazetted holidays or Sundays should be discouraged. Sundays, Public Holidays and weekly offs falling within the period of casual leave, or preceding or following it, should not be counted as part of the casual leave.
