In this blog, I have discussed Maternity Leave.  This leave is applicable to female teachers of primary and secondary schools, non-teaching female staff.  However, there are separate notifications for female teachers or non-teaching female staff of primary, secondary and higher secondary schools.  Through the Latest Notification of Maternity Leave, Maternity Leave of female employees of various departments has been increased to 180 days. Notification of Maternity Leave    Primary Education Branch Department Latest G.O No.  573-SE(Pry.)/10R-1/99 dt.  15.09.2011. Secondary and HS Education Branch Department Latest G.O No.  is S/148 dt.  03.06.2011. The rules for teachers of all departments are almost the same regarding Maternity Leave. Confinement Date of Confinement Date An important point in taking Maternity Leave is the Confinement Date i.e. the date of delivery of the child .  The Maternity Leave is sanctioned from this date.  Al...

Primary & High School teachers get different types of leave during their Service life.  The Government has its own circular according to the Department about all those leaves.  As such, the School Education Department (Elementary and Secondary Branch) has a specific memorandum on all leaves, where the Rules & Regulations of all leaves are mentioned.  School Education Department Primary Branch Leave Notification Memo Number is 453-SE(Pry.), Dated- 04/05/1999 and Secondary Branch Leave Notification Memo Number is 1541-Edn(S)/21-2/77, Dated-  15/12/1977 and here the Leave Rules of Non-teaching Staff are also mentioned. Attention One thing to remember is that any type of leave is not the right of employees.   (Leave cannot be claimed as right and the sanctioning authority reserves the right to refuse or revoke leave of any description, if, in the opinion of the authority, the exigencies of the circumstances demand, Memo No.  453-SE(Pry.), dated- 04...

  I will discuss Gratuity in this blog. Before determining the formula of gratuity, we will know what the rule of gratuity was before and what is the rule now. According to DCRB 1971 and DCRB 1974, the maximum gratuity rule was = (Last Basic Pay +DA) ×15. The question is why is it multiplied by 15?  According to DCRB 1974, the 6 months service period of qualifying service of an employee is calculated as 1 unit and his 1 year qualifying service is 2 units.  As per DCRB 1974 Maximum Qualifying Service will be 30 (in case of Gratuity) and maximum Units of Service will be 60.  Gratuity is maximum Units of Service One-fourth (1/4) i.e. 60÷4=15 times.  So multiply by 15 in the above formula. It was then notified through a Revised Order of DCRB 1974 {of which G.O No.  5225-F dt.  07.06.1976} Maximum Qualifying Service (in case of Gratuity) has been increased from 30 to 33.  As a result, the maximum Units of Service has also increased from 60 to 66. ...

  I will discuss Pension Commute in this blog. Commutation of Pension is a part of Basic Pension. Pension commutation is started as per West Bengal service rules'1983, the effective date of which is 01.01.1981. After that, the rules of this commutation have changed repeatedly. In DCRB 1981, it is said that according to the Pension Commuted Rate of the Government, the employees have to do Pension Commute and at that time the Pension Commute Rate was One-Third (1/3). And it is said that commutation can be done in case of any Pension (Retiring and Superannuation) and a chart is given according to the commutation value given in that chart the commutation value which will be from the next birthday of retirement of an employee should be multiplied by 12. Later G.O. No. 297-SE(B) {dt. 23.12.1994} amended to say that commutation of pension can be applied for before retirement. Earlier it was said that Basic Pension Commute can be done by One-third(1/3), but ROPA 98 G.O no. 123-SE(B) {...

Pension as per ROPA 2019 has been discussed in detail in this blog. Types of Pension   Compensation Pension   When a permanent post is abolished, the employees in that post are forced to retire.  Compensation Pension is given to those employees. Invalid Pension Invalid Pension is paid if an employee retires due to infirm or unhealthy, physical or mental weakness. Superannuation Pension   Employees are given Superannuation Pension if they retire on time due to old age i.e. according to the service conditions.  Superannuation Pension is the pension that an employee gets when he retires at the age of 60 years.  Minimum qualifying service for superannuation pension should be 10 years.  In this case, it should be remembered that if he retires at the age of 60 years according to the service rules, then he should not leave the service voluntarily, in this case his pension should be calculated. Retiring Pension If someone wants to retire after 20 years...