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Recommendations of Fifth Central Pay Commission relating to grant of commuted leave/leave on Medical Certificate to Railway servants. The V CPC’ (official digest)

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Recommendations of Fifth Central Pay Commission relating to grant of commuted leave/leave on Medical Certificate to Railway servants. The V CPC’ (official digest)

RBE No. 145/2002 Date: 2002-08-29 Official source: https://indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/establishment/order_july-sep.jsp

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Reference: E(P&A)I-97/CPC/LE-7 dt. 29.8.2002

Recommendations of Fifth Central Pay Commission relating to grant of commuted leave/leave on Medical Certificate to Railway servants. The V CPC’ recommendations made vide para 117.14 of their report relating to grant of Commuted Leave/Leave to all categories of Government servants on production of a medical Certificate has been considered by the Government and it has now been decided by the Board that the following procedure may be followed for sanction of Commuted Leave/Leave to Railway servants on the basis of Medical Certificate:- (i) A Railway servant (Gazetted or Non-gazetted) on being a Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS)/Railway Health Services(RHS) beneficiary and living in an area covered by the CGHS/RHS at the time of illness, shall be required to produce a Medical / Fitness Certificate in the Form prescribed in Annexure XI of Rule 538 and 541 of Indian Railway Medical Manual, Volume I, Third Edition 2000, either from an authorized CGHS Medical Officer or a Railway/Government Authorized Medical Officer. In circumstances where the Railway Doctor’s line visits do not materialize, the Railway employees who are covered by the line jurisdiction of the Railway doctor and who have fallen ill, may obtain a Medical Certificate from a Registered Medical Practitioner (RMP) subject to the condition that if the leave applied for on medical grounds is for more than 3 days, the employee should report to the Railway doctor if he is fit to travel or send intimation about his condition if he is bed-ridden, at such intervals as directed by the Railway doctor. (ii) Railway servants (Gazetted or Non-gazetted), who are not CGHS/RHS beneficiaries, (including those who have opted out of the CGHS/RHS or are CGHS or RHS Card Holders, but at the time of illness are residing outside the jurisdiction of the CGHS/RHS facilities or take ill while being outside the Headquarters) are required to produce a certificate from his Authorized Medical Attendant provided that in the case of a Non-gazetted Railway employee, if no AMA is available within a radius of 8 kilometers of his residence or place of temporary stay outside the Headquarters, the leave sanctioning authority may, at its discretion, sanction Leave/commuted Leave on production of Medical Certificate of sickness from the Registered Medical Practitioner, after satisfying itself of the facts/merits of the case. (iii) In case of hospitalization/indoor treatment permitted in a private hospital recognized under the CGHS/Central Services (Medical Attendance) Rules, 1944 and Railway Medical Attendance Rules as contained in Indian Railway Medical Manual, Third Edition, 2000 (Corrected upto 30.9.99), a Railway servant (Gazetted or Non-gazetted), whether a CGHS/RHS beneficiary or not, may produce the requisite Medical/Fitness Certificate from the Authorized Medical Officer of such a hospital in case his hospitalization/indoor treatment, is on account of the particular kind of disease (e.g. heart, cancer etc.) for the treatment of which the concerned hospital has been recognized by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. There may be instances where an employee may be initially admitted to such a hospital at a stage when the disease has yet not been fully diagonosed and it may subsequently be established that the disease was not that, the suspicion of which prompted his/her admission to the hospital. In such cases, the leave sanctioning authority, with the approval of the General Manager, may grant Leave/Commuted Leave on the basis of the certificate of sickness from the Aut

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