Quarantine Leave || Admissible maximum duration of 21days

21.A. Quarantine leave arrear 

Quarantine leave is granted when a member of staff is precluded under orders of the competent medical authority from attending office In consequence of an Infectious disease in his family or household. Such leave can be granted only on the certificate ofe medical or public health officer. Maximum duration of Quarantine leave is ordinarily twenty one days and may be extended upto thirty days in exceptional circumstances. Any absence beyond been limits has to be treated as regular leave. A member of staff on Quarantine leave Is not treated as absent from duty and Ins pay Is not interrupted.

Quarantine leave Is not admissible If the member of staff himself is suffering from an infectious disease. 

Cholera, Small-pox, Plague, Diptherla., Typhus fever and Cerebrospinal Meningitis can be treated as Infectious disease for the grant of Quarantine leave. In the case of Chicken-pox, however. no Quarantine leave can be granted unless the Health Officer considers that in view of some doubt about the nature of the disease there is reason for grant of such leave.