TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE OF CHAIRMAN AND OTHER MEMBERS

Salary

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

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

Provident Fund

The Chairman and every other member shall be entitled to contribute to the Provident Fund of the Board

Pension and Gratuity

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

Travelling allowance

(1) The Chairperson and every other Member shall be entitled to receive travelling allowance, daily allowance and reimbursement of expenditure on transportation of personal effects at the time of transfer to join the Board, or at the termination of his tenure with the Board, for visiting his home town along with his family (including in respect of journey performed by him and his family), or on a tour within India, at such scales and rates as are applicable to an officer of the Central Government at the following levels of pay, 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 tour outside India only in accordance with the guidelines or directions issued by the Central Government and shall, in respect of such tour, be entitled to the same allowances as are entitled to officers of the Central Government at the following levels of pay, namely:-

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

Medical aid

(1) The Chairperson and every other Member shall be entitled to medical aid as admissible to them under any Group Health Insurance Scheme of the Board for officers and employees of the Board and their eligible dependents

(2) If the Chairperson or other Member has retired from Government service, or from the service of a public sector unit or a corporate body established by a Central Act, a Provincial Act or a State Act, and there are separate rules for grant of medical aid for such service, he may opt to be governed by such rules instead of medical aid under sub-section (1).

Leave

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

(2) The Chairperson and every other Member may, by notification under Section 107 of the Government of India, grant leave under the State Government in such manner as may be prescribed by law.

• (i) and clause (b) of sub-rule (1) of rule 26 of the Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972 (hereinafter referred to as the “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 application of any of the said rules causes undue hardship in any 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 the just and equitable disposal of the case.

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

(5) The Chairman and every other Member shall be entitled to encashment of earned leave standing to the credit of his/her account, subject to such conditions and under the same conditions as apply to a Government servant ÿ under rule 38-A, sub-rules (1) and (2) and clauses (i) and (ii) of sub-rule (a) of sub-rule (6) of rule 39, rule 39-A and rule 39-C, the maximum limit of encashment under any of the said rules except rule 38-A being fifty per cent of the earned leave standing to the credit of his/her account.

Leave Travel Concession

(1) The Chairperson and every other Member shall be admissible leave travel concession in accordance with the provisions of 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 applicable to persons appointed to civil services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union of India and the eligibility for such concession shall be the same as applicable to officers of the Central Government in level 17 of the Pay Scale in the case of Chairperson and to officers of the Central Government in level 15 of the Pay Scale in the case of Members.

(2) The Chairperson and every other Member shall be eligible to avail of leave travel concession or to visit any place in India during any period of two years out of the funds of his office.

Other terms and conditions of service

(1) The Chairperson and every other Member shall ensure that there is no conflict of interest in the discharge of the duties of his office and he shall not have any financial or other interest which is likely to affect prejudicially the discharge of the duties of such office.

(2) (2) The provisions contained in Parts IV to 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 the Central Civil Services, Group 'A', shall apply mutatis mutandis to the Chairman and every other Member.

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

(4) The Chairman 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 the rules, the matter is referred to the Central Government for its decision. and the decision of the Central Government thereon shall be final