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MATERNITY LEAVE[ Instructions under

FR 101 (a) ]

The married women Government Servants who are Permanent or

Approved probationers or Non-Permanent but completed one year of

service are eligible for the grant of Maternity Leave on full pay either

from the date of confinement or for the period which spreads over

from the pre-confinement rest to the post confinement recuperation at

their option.

The Non-Permanent Government Servants ( Temporary or Probationers)

who have not completed one year of service are not eligible for the

grant of Maternity Leave

Those who are having two surviving children are not eligible for the

grant of Maternity Leave for confinement.

If the Government Servant is confined while availing of any other

leave, Maternity Leave will be admissible only from the date of

confinement.

Maternity Leave for confinement is admissible for a period not

exceeding 180 days. But Earned Leave available at credit on the day

of entering on leave and Maternity Leave for the remaining period

that falls short of 180 days shall be granted to Non-Permanent

Government Servants who have completed one year of service. If

Earned Leave is not available at the credit of such GovernmentServants, Maternity Leave shall be granted for 180 days.

Any other leave upto a maximum period of one year may be availed

in continuation of Maternity Leave by producing a Medical Certificate.

Any other leave may be availed in continuation of Maternity Leave in

case of illness of a newly born baby by producing a certificate from

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the authorized Medical Attendant to the effect that the condition of the

ailing baby needs mothers special attention and her presence by

the babys side is absolutely necessary.

Maternity Leave for Miscarriage / Abortion or Medical Termination of

Pregnancy is admissible for a period not exceeding 42 days,

irrespective of number of surviving children. But Earned Leave

available at credit and Maternity Leave for the remaining period that

falls short of 42 days shall be granted to Non-Permanent Government

Servants who have completed one year of service. If Earned Leave

is not available at credit of such Government Servants, Maternity Leave

shall be granted for 42 days.

The leave for Miscarriage or Abortion shall be granted only on

production of the certificate from a Registered Medical Practitioner

authorized under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971.

The leave for Medical Termination of Pregnancy shall be granted only

if the termination of pregnancy was performed at a Government

Hospital or any other institution approved under the Medical

Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 and on production of the

certificate from the concerned Medical Officer-in-charge.

When a Government Servant is declared to have satisfactorily

completed her probation with retrospective effect and had the Earned

Leave at credit and Maternity Leave for the remaining period that falls

short of 180 days or 42 days, as the case may be, been sanctioned

between the due date for the completion of probation and the date of

issue of orders for completion of probation, the Government Servant

may request, as per the Ruling 5 under TNLR 27, to alter the entire

period as Maternity Leave.

If any other leave had been sanctioned in continuation of Maternity

Leave for 90 days to a Government Servant who was on Maternity

Leave prior to 16.05.2011 and continuing that Maternity Leave on or

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after 16.05.2011 can be revised even now to that of Maternity Leave,

restricting it to 180 days as per G.O.(Ms.) No.61, P & AR (FR III)

Department, Dated : 16.06.2011.