SERVICE LOKAM

2019, ഏപ്രിൽ 20, ശനിയാഴ്‌ച

All permanent employees are earning Earned Leave at the rate of one day for every eleven days(1/11) on duty. Non-permanent employees are earning this leave at the rate of one day for every 22 days on duty for the first year and after that @ 1/11. When the person is confirmed in that cadre, the Earned Leave calculated @ 1/22 will be regularized @ 1/11. From 27/2/2007 all non permanent employees who have completed 3 years' continuous service are eligible to recalculate their Earned leave @ 1/11 for the first year. The maximum amount of EL that can be at credit at a time shall not be in excess of 300 days w.e.f. 01-11-1998. The maximum amount of EL that can be granted at a time shall not be in excess of 180 days. But, in the case of leave preparatory to retirement, it can be granted upto 300 days. During a financial year 30 days Earned leave can be surrendered in a block for leave salary. For terminal surrender it will be upto 300 days.

EL Salary: Full pay, if the person had been on duty+Dearness Allowance to that pay + compensatory allowances as admissible (No HRA if occupying Government Quarters)+special pay as admissible. If promoted during EL, monetary benefit of promotion shall be granted only from the date on which charge is assumed. (SeeKSR Rules 92&93)

Casual Leave

Govt servants with no vacation period would get 20 days in a year and for teachers it is 15 days a year. Casual leave is not the right of a govt servant. Moreover this is considered as duty. Whatever may be the date of joining in a calendar year, one can have this. But it is at the discretion of higher authority. if it is not allowed, no complaints can be filed against it. The superior officer can even decline casual leave to his employees.

2019, ഏപ്രിൽ 13, ശനിയാഴ്‌ച

Department Websites

GPF Help Desk

General Provident Fund Help Desk

A Special Cell - General Provident Fund Help Desk - has been opened in the Office of the Accountant General (A&E), Thiruvananthapuram, to attend to the grievances of the subscribers. The difficulties of the subscribers are attended to on priority basis by the officials at the Help Desk. The subscribers are free to contact the Help Desk on all working days from 10.00 AM to 1 PM and 2.00 PM to 5.00 PM. Subscribers may contact the Reception to approach the Help Desk. The Help Desk functions under the supervision of the Deputy Accountant General (Funds).

Enquiries on GPF matters can also be made by calling in

0471 2525650, 0471 2330311 – Extn. 650

All enquires relating to GPF may be addressed to:

Senior Accounts Officer,

‘GPF Help Desk’

Office of the Accountant General (A&E),

Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram – 695 039

Annual account statement and correction

deposits if any will be treated as unauthorized and no interest will be allowed.

Annual Accounts Statement (Credit Card)

After the close of each financial year, the Accountant General sends to each subscriber an Annual Accounts Statement showing the opening balance as on the 1^st April of the year, the total amount deposited and withdrawn during the year, amount of interest credited as on 31^st March of the year and the closing balance on that date. Subscribers have to satisfy themselves as to the correctness of the Credit Cards and errors should be brought to the notice of the Accountant General within three months of receipt of the same.

Missing Credits

At times, schedules/vouchers are not received from the Treasuries for various reasons and as a result some of the subscriptions/refunds/arrears/withdrawals do not get posted in the account. These missing credits/debits can be located and included in the subscriber’s account after proper verification of the accounts rendered to this Office by the drawing and disbursing officers/treasuries subject to furnishing the following details duly certified by the Drawing and Disbursing Officers in the case of Non-Gazetted subscribers and by the Treasury Officers in the case of Gazetted subscribers.

· Name of the Subscriber

· GPF Account number

· Name of the DDO under whom serving

· Amount of subscription/refund/withdrawal

· Salary month for which details are being furnished

· Head of Account (up to Detailed Head) under which salary was drawn

· Treasury/Sub Treasury where the salary was drawn

· Treasury voucher number/challan number

· Totals of the schedule amount enclosed in the particular voucher as noted on the abstract in case of credit.

· Date of payment of the voucher/remittance of the amount in the case of challan remittance

· Total amount of the GPF payment voucher (in the case of advances)

FINAL WITHDRAWAL OF GPF (CLOSURE)

FINAL WITHDRAWAL (CLOSURE)

(i) Final withdrawal of accumulation in the Fund is permitted whesubscriber quits the service (on retirement, dismissal, resignation, compulsory retirement, removal etc.).

(ii) In case of death while in service.

How to Apply for Closure?

(a) Application for closure has to be filed in Form E.

(b) The application duly filled in and signed by the subscriber/claimant(s) is to be given to the department for forwarding the same to the Accountant General along with requisite documents by the Head of Office.

Conditions for Closure

1. Subscription and refund discontinued during the last three months of service (Rule 10).

2. A subscriber may at any time during the last one year of service opt to close the account by giving option under Rule 30 (c), i.e., after stopping subscription.

Manner of Payment

The Accounts Officer closes the account after verifying the ledger accounts and issue an authority for payment of the amount. Authorizations are forwarded to the Drawing and Disbursing Officers concerned in respect of the Non-Gazetted Officers and direct to the Gazetted Officers. Gazetted Officers can choose any Treasury. The Fund accumulation payable to the subscriber shall be paid to the person(s) on whom the right to receive the amount is conferred by means of a nomination as per rules, if the said subscriber dies while in service or before receiving the fund accumulation after retirement. If the subscriber dies while in service and where there is no nomination, the amount will be paid to the eligible family members on the basis of Departmental Enquiry Certificate in equal shares.

· GPF (K) Rules do not permit payment of interest beyond the date of authorization by the Accountant General.

· Interest is allowed upto the end of the month previous to the month in which authorization for payment of PF balance is issued, if the closure application is received by the Department/Accountant General within a period of one year. If the application is not submitted within one year of quitting service/death, interest is admissible only upto a period of one year from the crucial date necessitating the closure of the account.

· As per Government of Kerala Circular No.29/87/Fin. dated 24-4-1987, arrears of dearness allowance shall not be deposited to the Fund of a subscriber who had opted not to subscribe to the Fund as per 3^rd proviso to Rule 10. Such deposits if any will be treated as unauthorized and no interest will be allowed.