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.
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