SPECIAL CONDITIONS OF GRANT OF ADVANCES IN CONNECTION WITH NATURAL CALAMITIES

XI. SPECIAL CONDITIONS OF GRANT OF ADVANCES IN

CONNECTION WITH NATURAL CALAMITIES

Rule 64. Powers of Sanction.

-A Head of Office may sanction the grant of an

advance to a non-Gazetted Government servant under his administrative control

whose property, movable or immovable, has been substantially affected or damaged

in an area affected by a natural calamity, subject to the following conditions:

(i) that the concerned State Government of the State in which the natural calamity

has occurred, has declared the area as having been affected by the natural calamity;

(ii) that the State Government has also issued orders sanctioning financial assistance

to their own employees whose property, movable or immovable, has been damaged

by the natural calamity in the areas declared as having been affected by the natural

calamity; and

(iii) an application is made in Form IX of the Compendium.

EXPLANATION.-In this rule, the term "non-Gazetted Government servant"

includes similar categories of staff in industrial establishments under the Central

Government and work-charged staff who are eligible for pension or Contributory

Provident Fund benefits, but does not include staff paid from contingencies.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA'S DECISIONS

(1) Head of Account.-The advance sanctioned under this Rule should be

booked under the detailed head "Salaries" to which the pay and allowances of the

employees are ordinarily debited and the recoveries thereof be watched through the

Pay Bill Register.

[ M.F., O,M. No. 18 (I)-E. II (A)/90, dated the 22nd January, 1991.]

(2) Government servant liable to disciplinary action if his declaration is found not true.-

An employee applying for natural calamity advance in terms of

this Rule shall also be required to give a declaration showing the details of the movable/immovable property damaged due to the natural calamity along with his application. In case the declaration given by him is not found true at any stage, he shall be liable to disciplinary action in terms of Rule 11 of the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965, as amended from time to time.

Rule 65. Notwithstanding anything contained in Rule 64, no advance shall be

sanctioned to a Government servant, if he does not apply for it within three months

from the date of Government orders under which an area is declared to be affected

by a natural calamity.

Rule 66. Amount of Advance.-Subject to the provisions of Rule 67, the

amount of an advance which may be granted to a Government servant shall not

exceed Rs. 2,500 (Rupees Two thousand five hundred).

Rule 67. Normally, a second advance on this account should not be sanctioned,

if an earlier advance for the same purpose remains unadjusted. If, however, the

grant of second advance becomes necessary, the quantum of the second advance

plus the outstanding balance of the first advance should not exceed the limit

prescribed in Rule 66 above.

Rule 68. Recovery of Advance.- The amount of advance granted under Rule 66

shall be recovered in not more than twenty-five equal monthly installments.

Rule 69. The recovery of the amount of an advance shall commence from the

second issue of pay after the advance is drawn.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA'S DECISIONS

(1) Date of drawal to be reckoned with reference to date of payment.-The

date of drawal of the advance should be the date on which the amount of advance is

actually disbursed to Government servant. The timelag between dates of drawal and

disbursement should be reduced to the minimum.