Terms and conditions of service of Chairperson and other Members

Salary

(1)The Chairperson shall be entitled to receive a consolidated salary of rupees four lakh fifty thousand per month, without the facility of house and car.

(2) Every Member other than the Chairperson shall be entitled to receive a consolidated salary of rupees four lakh per month, without the facility of house and car.

Provident Fund

The Chairperson and every other Member shall be eligible to contribute to the Provident Fund of the Board, and the manner and terms and conditions applicable in this regard shall, mutatis mutandis, be the same as those applicable to other officers and employees of the Board for their Provident Fund.

Pension and Gratuity

The Chairperson and every other Member shall not be entitled to payment of pension or gratuity for service rendered in the Board.

Travelling allowance

(1) The Chairperson and every other Member, while on transfer to join the Board, or on the expiry of her term with the Board for proceeding to her home town with family (including in respect of journey undertaken by her and her family), or on tour within India, shall be entitled to journey allowance, daily allowance and reimbursement of expense on transportation of personal effects at such scales and rates as are applicable to an officer of the Central Government in the following level of the pay matrix, namely:—

• (a) level 17, in the case of the Chairperson; and
• (b) level 15, in the case of every other Member

(2) The Chairperson and every other Member may undertake tour outside India only in accordance with guidelines or instructions issued by the Central Government, and in respect of such tour, she shall be entitled to draw the same allowances as an officer of the Central Government, in the following level of the pay matrix, is entitled to draw, namely: —

• (a) level 17, in the case of the Chairperson; and
• (b) level 15, in the case of every other Member.

Medical assistance.

(1) The Chairperson and every other Member shall be entitled to such medical assistance as may be admissible to them under any group health insurance scheme of the Board for officers and employees of the Board and their eligible dependants.

(2) If the Chairperson or other Member has retired from Government service, or from the service of a public sector entity or a body corporate established by a Central Act, Provincial Act or State Act, and there are a separate set of rules for the grant of medical assistance for such service, she may, in lieu of medical assistance under sub-paragraph (1), opt to be governed by such rules.

Leave

(1) The authority competent to sanction leave shall be the Central Government in respect of the Chairperson, and the Chairperson in respect of any other Member.

(2) The Chairperson and every other Member may avail of such kinds of leave as are admissible to a Government servant under sub-clause (i) of clause (a) and clause (b) of sub-rule (1) of rule 26, rules 27, 29, 30 and 40 to 43-C of the Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972 (hereinafter referred to as “Leave Rules”).

(3) Leave shall be subject to the conditions applicable to a Government servant under rules 7 to 11 and 22 to 25 of the Leave Rules, and the Central Government may, if satisfied that the operation of any of the said rules causes undue hardship in a particular case, by order relax the requirements of that rule to such extent and subject to such exceptions and conditions as it may consider necessary for dealing with the case in a just and equitable manner.

(4) The Chairperson and every other Member shall be entitled to casual leave to such extent as is admissible to a Government servant under instructions issued by the Central Government.

(5) The Chairperson and every other Member shall be entitled to encashment of earned leave standing to her credit, subject to such conditions and in like manner as are applicable to a Government servant under rule 38-A, sub-rules (1) and (2) and sub-clauses (i) and (ii) of clause (a) of sub-rule (6) of rule 39, rule 39-A and rule 39-C of the Leave Rules, subject to the maximum extent of encashment under any of the said rules, other than rule 38-A, being fifty per cent. of the earned leave standing to her credit.

Leave Travel Concession

(1) Leave travel concession shall be admissible to the Chairperson and every other Member in accordance with the provisions applicable to persons appointed to civil services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union of India under rule 3, clauses (a) and (d) of rule 4, rules 5 to 15 and rule 17 of the Central Civil Services (Leave Travel Concession) Rules, 1988, and the entitlement for such concession shall be the same as is applicable to officers of the Central Government in level 17 of the pay matrix in the case of the Chairperson, and to officers of the Central Government in level 15 of the pay matrix in the case of a Member.

(2) The Chairperson and every other Member shall be eligible to avail of either leave travel concession to home town or leave travel concession to any place in India in any period of two years from the date of assumption of their office as a Member.

Other terms and conditions of service

(1) The Chairperson and every other Member shall ensure absence of conflict of interest in the performance of the functions of her office and shall not have any such financial or other interests as are likely to prejudicially affect the performance of the functions of such office.

(2) The provisions contained in Part IV to Part IX of the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965, as applicable to an officer of the Central Government who is a member of a Central Civil Services, Group ‘A’, shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the Chairperson and every other Member.

(3) The Chairperson and every other Member shall not be entitled to any sitting fee for attending meetings of the Board.

(4) The Chairperson and every other Member shall not be entitled to any sumptuary allowance.

(5) Any matter relating to the conditions of service of the Chairperson or any other Member, in respect of which no express provision has been made in these rules, shall be referred to the Central Government for its decision, and the decision of the Central Government on the same shall be final.