CCS JoiningTime Rules 1979
CCS JoiningTime Rules 1979
CCS JoiningTime Rules 1979
CCS (JOINING TIME) RULES
In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Article 309 and Clause (5) of Article 148 of
the Constitution and after consultation with the Comptroller and AuditorGeneral in relation to
persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the President hereby makes the
following rules, namely:
1. Preliminary
(1) These rules may be called the Central Civil Services (Joining Time) Rules, 1979.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of issue of this Notification and shall apply to
transfers effected on/or after that date.
(3) These rules shall apply to all Government servants appointed in Civil Services and posts and
under the Central Government including workcharged staff but shall not apply to
(a) Railway employees.
(b) Armed Forces Personnel and those paid from the Defence Services Estimates.
(c) Government servants engaged on contract and those who are not in wholetime employment
of Government.
(d) Government servants, paid out of contingencies.
2. (1) When a Government servant to whom these rules apply is transferred to the control of
another Government or organization, which has made separate rules prescribing amount of
joining time, his Joining Time for the journey to join his post under that Government/organization
and for the return journey, will be governed by those rules, unless different provisions are
expressly made in the terms of deputation/foreign service by mutual agreement between the
lending and borrowing authorities.
(2) The Joining Time of railway employees, Armed Forces Personnel and those paid from
Defence Services Estimates and the employees of State Government or any other organization
who are appointed to Civil Services and posts under the Central Government on deputation or
on foreign service basis, shall, for joining the Civil Services and posts under the Central
Government and for the return journeys, be regulated in accordance with these rules, unless
different provisions are expressly made in their respective terms, of deputation/foreign service,
by mutual agreement between the lending and borrowing authorities.
3. Definitions
Unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context, the terms defined in these rules
are used in these rules in the sense hereinafter explained
(a) “Department of Government of India” means a Ministry or Department of the Central
Government as notified from time to time and any other authority which exercises the powers of
a Department/Ministry of the Government of India.
[In respect of the persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the Comptroller
and AuditorGeneral of India shall exercise the same powers as the Ministries/Departments of
Government of India, under these rules.]
(b) “Head of Department” means the authority declared as such under the Delegation of
Financial Powers Rules, 1978. In the case of the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, Head
of Department means the authority declared as such by the Comptroller and AuditorGeneral of
India.
(c) “Joining Time” means time allowed to a Government servant in which to join a new post or to
travel to a station to which he is posted.
(d) “Transfer” means the movement of a Government servant from one post to another either
within the same station or to another station to take up duties of a new post or in consequences
of change of his headquarters.
4. Joining Time
(1) Joining time shall be granted to a Government servant on transfer in public interest to enable
him to join the new post either at the same or a new station. No joining time is admissible in
cases of temporary transfer for a period not exceeding 180 days. Only the actual transit time, as
admissible in case of journeys on tour, may be allowed.
(2) The surplus staff transferred from one post to another under the Scheme Regulating
Redeployment of Surplus Staff shall be eligible for joining time.
(3) Government servants who are discharged due to reduction of establishment from one
Central Government office and reappointed to another Central Government office shall be
entitled to joining time, if the orders of appointment to the new post are received by them while
working in the old post. If they are appointed to the new post after being discharged from the old
post, the period of break may be converted into joining time without pay by the Head of
Department, provided that the break does not exceed 30 days and the Government servant has
rendered not less than 3 years continuous service on the date of his discharge.
(4) For appointment to posts under the Central Government on the results of a competitive
examination and/or interview open to Government servants and others, Central Government
employees and permanent/provisionally permanent State Government employees will be
entitled to joining time under these rules. But temporary employees of the Central Government
who have not completed 3 years of regular continuous service, though entitled to joining time
would not be entitled to joining time pay.
(5) (1) The joining time shall commence from the date of relinquishment of charge of the old
post if the charge is made over in the forenoon or the following date if the charge is made over
in the afternoon.
(2) The joining time shall be calculated from old headquarters in all cases including where a
Government servant receives his transfer orders or makes over charge of the old post in a place
other than his old headquarters, or where the headquarters of a Government servant while on
tour is changed to the tour station itself or where his temporary transfer is converted into
permanent transfer.
(3) Not more than one day’s joining time shall be allowed to a Government servant to join a new
post within the same station or which does not involve a change of residence from one station to
another. For this purpose, the term ‘same station’ will be interpreted to mean the area falling
within the jurisdiction of the municipality or corporation including such of suburban
municipalities, notified areas or cantonments as are contiguous to the named municipality, etc.
(4) In cases involving transfer from one station to another and also involving change of
residence, the Government servant shall be allowed joining time with reference to the distance
between the old headquarters and the new headquarters by direct route and ordinary mode(s)
of travel as indicated in the following schedule. When holiday(s) follow(s) joining time, the
normal joining time may be deemed to have been extended to cover such holiday(s).
Distance between the Joining Time admissible Joining Time admissible
old headquarters and where the transfer
the new headquarters necessarily involves
continuous travel by road for
more than 200 kms.