Coronavirus in Tamil Nadu: Govt employees can’t encash earned leave for a year

B Sivakumar | TNN | Apr 27, 2020, 14:10 IST

The govt has frozen enchantment of earned leave due to Covid-19.

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government on Monday announced its decision to freeze surrender and encashment of earned leave for one year.
More than 18 lakh government employees and teachers will be affected by this decision. The government will save around Rs 2,000 crore this year due to this move.
“In view of the fiscal stress arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, the periodical surrender of earned leave for encashment for 15 days every year or 30 days every two years, as provided under Rule 7A of the Tamil Nadu Leave Rules, 1933, is suspended initially for a period of one year to all government employees, teachers from the date of issue of this order,” said chief secretary K Shanmugam in an order issued on Monday.
“All surrender requests and bills pending as on date irrespective of their stage of sanction and disbursement shall not be processed. In cases where sanction orders have been issued, they are to be cancelled and earned leave will be credited to the leave account of the respective employees,” said Shanmugam.
The order shall also be applicable to all constitutional, statutory bodies, including state corporations, local bodies, boards, universities, commissions, companies, institutions, societies and others.