On the basis of Statute of The University of Gour Banga (UGB FIRST STATUTES No.: 1607/UGB/R-14 (Statute),-dated Malda, the 24th December, 2014) and Memorandum of Government of West Bengal (Higher education Department (GoW) Memo. No.: 762-Edn(CS)/2L-10/08 dated 3rd December, 2009; 171- Edn (CS)/2L-37/2017 dated 15.02.2018; 819-Edn(CS)1363/SACT/2021 dated 12.08.2021; No. 475-Edn(Tech)/10M-07/2022 Date: 19/12/2022), following major and important leave rules can be mentioned-

1. Leave of absence from duty cannot be claimed as a matter of right and may, on application by a teacher / Principal of a college, be granted only when satisfactory grounds have been shown.
2. All applications for leave or for extension of leave shall be made in writing and addressed to the Principal/President of the Governing Body in case of Principal.
3. If a teacher of a college is absent from duty on all the days of a week on which he has been assigned duties, whether such days are consecutive or not, she/he shall be deemed to be absent from duty for the whole of the week.
4. Leave ordinarily shall commence on the date with effect from which it is actually availed of and terminate on the date preceding the date of resumption of duty. Provided that Sundays or holidays can be prefixed or suffixed to leave, so, however, that for the purpose of prefixing or suffixing to leave holidays exceeding three days; previous sanction of the authority competent to grant the leave shall be obtained.
5. The Principal/ the President of the Governing Body of a college, may in his discretion, recall any teacher/ Principal of the college, as the case may be, to duty, at any time, who may be on leave, except on medical grounds, and when a teacher/ Principal is so recalled to duty he shall be granted such travelling allowances as the Principal/ the President, as the case may be, may consider reasonable.
6.Types of Leave:– (i) Casual Leave; (ii) Earned Leave; (iii) On Duty Absence ; (iv) Study Leave; (v) Special Study Leave;(vi) Maternity Leave and Child Adoption Leave; (vii) Quarantine Leave; (viii) Medical Leave/ Half Pay Leave (ix) Commuted Leave ; (x) Extraordinary Leave; (xi) Compensatory Leave; (xii) Leave Not Due; (xiii) Special Disability Leave. (xiv) Child Care Leave.

Casual Leave (CL):-

“Casual Leave” means leave to which a teacher/Principal may be entitled in any academic year by virtue of his being a teacher/ Principal and may be availed of by him for a short period on account of illness or urgent private affairs.
Casual leave on full pay may be allowed to Teacher/ Principal of a college up to a maximum of 14 days in any one academic year but not more than four days at a time.
Casual leave cannot be combined with any other kind of leave or Puja holidays or the Summer Recess or Winter Recess, but can be prefixed and/or suffixed to Sundays, other holidays and weekly offs, provided such leave shall not exceed 7 days at a time including Sundays, holidays and weekly offs.
Sundays or holidays other than Puja holidays falling within or succeeding the period of casual leave shall not be counted as part of casual leave.
All casual leave to which any teacher/ Principal of a college may be entitled during any academic year shall cease to be due to him at the end of such academic year and cannot be accumulated or taken over or brought forward to any other academic year.
A teacher/ Principal on casual leave shall not be treated as absent from duty.

Earned Leave (EL):-

‘Earned Leave’ is the leave which is earned by a teacher/ Principal by discharge of duties for a certain period. Every whole-time teacher / Principal of a college shall be entitled to earned leave on full pay and allowances
First 7 academic years of service—-15 days for every completed 12 months of active service and from the 8th year —30 days of EL will be accumulated for every additional completed 1year.
The upper limit of accumulation of earned leave shall be 300 (three hundred) days in whole service life.
Unless otherwise compelled by the exigencies of circumstances, all applications for earned leave shall be made at least seven days prior to the date on which the concerned teacher/ Principal proposes to proceed on leave for twenty days or more.
Prior sanction should be obtained before leaving station and/ or proceeding on leave as well as for extension of leave even if the period of leave applied for is less than twenty days.
Earned Leave for any period not exceeding 14 days at a time and casual leave may be granted to teachers of a college by the Principal of the college. Earned Leave for any longer period or any other kind of leave for any period may be granted by the Governing Body of the college.
EL may be credited at the rate of 2.5 days for each completed calendar month for those who have completed 7 years of service and at the rate of 1.25 day for those who are in the first seven years of service. Ultimate fraction of a day shall be rounded off to a nearest integer.
Earned leave admissible to a teacher shall be 1/3rd of the period, if any, during which he is required to perform duty during vacation by the college authority or equal to one-eleventh of the period spent on actual service in a non-vacation department subject to a maximum of thirty days in a calendar year.
The maximum period of earned leave that may be granted at a time shall not normally exceed Sixty days. Earned leave exceeding sixty days but not more than one hundred and eighty days at a time may be sanctioned in case of higher study/ training/ leave with medical certificate.
Earned leave may be granted for such reasons- a. illness of the teacher concerned, (application shall be accompanied by a medical certificate), b. illness of a member of the family of such teacher, (application shall be accompanied by a medical certificate), c. urgent private affairs, d. higher study or training, and e. rest preparatory to retirement.
When a teacher moves from one college to another on lien or otherwise, his accumulation of earned leave/ halfpay leave in the new college will be as per previous accumulation of leave i.e. in other words his leave account will be a continuous procedure.

Medical Leave/ Half Pay Leave (ML):-

A whole-time teacher/ Principal/ Teacher-in-Charge of a college shall be entitled to half-pay leave for twenty days for each completed year of service. Such leave may be granted on medical ground on the basis of medical certificate from a registered medical practitioner as well as on the ground of private affairs.
Half-pay leave may be combined with any other kind of leave except casual leave.
Half-pay leave may be accumulated up to a maximum of seven hundred and twenty days during the entire period of service.
State Aided College Teachers (SACTs) are entitled to avail of 20 (twenty) days medical leave with half (1/2) remuneration in a calendar year on production of medical certificate from a registered medical practitioner. Unutilised ML with half (1/2) remuneration or commuted medical leave with full remuneration, shall be allowed to be carried forward to the following year, subject to accumulation of a maximum of 60 days (with half remuneration) or 30 days (with full remuneration). The accumulated medical leave may be utilised from time to time depending on the type of medical need but not exceeding thirty days at a time (with full remuneration), subject to submission of medical documents to the satisfaction of the college authority.

Commuted Leave:-

A teacher/ Principal/ Teacher-in-Charge shall be entitled to commute the half-pay leave that he has earned to full pay leave on medical ground subject to production of a certificate from a registered medical practitioner.
When such commuted leave is granted, twice the amount of half-pay leave shall be debited.
Total commuted leave that may be granted to a teacher shall not exceed one hundred and eighty days during the whole period of service of the teacher.
Half-pay leave up to a maximum of one hundred and eighty days may be allowed to be commuted during the entire service period of a teacher (without production of medical certificate) provided such leave is utilized for an approved course certified to be in the interest of the college by the Governing Body.
Commuted leave may be combined with any other kind of leave except casual leave.

Maternity Leave: –

Maternity leave with full pay and allowances may be granted to a lady teacher on full pay for a period not exceeding one hundred eighty days/per child.
Maternity leave, combined with any other kind of leave, may be granted only if the application is supported by a medical certificate signed by a registered medical practitioner.
Maternity leave may also be granted to a lady teacher on full pay in cases of miscarriage, including abortion, subject to the condition that such leave shall not exceed six weeks.
Maternity leave shall not be debited to leave account though to be recorded in Service book.
This leave can be availed for the first two living children
A female employee of the College with less than two surviving children, adopts a child of less than one year, shall be entitled to one hundred thirty five days ‘Child Adoption Leave’.
State Aided College Teachers (SACTs) are entitled to avail the maternity leave as admissible under Government rules.