Casual leave is a concession to enable Government servant in special circumstances to be absent from duty for short period, without such absence being treated as leave. Maximum period of casual leave that can be availed of in a calendar year is only 15 days.
The unavailed part of leave will lapse at the close of the calendar year.
Casual leave may be combined with optional holidays of Sundays or other authorized public holidays provided the resulting period of absence does not exceed 10 days.
In the case of Casual leave to a purely temporary and emergency Government servants the sanctioning authority will use its discretion having regard to the length of service put in by such Government servant.
A Government servant may be granted casual leave for half a day either from 10-30 to 1-30 pm. or from 2-OOpm to 5-OOpm.