Election Duty to Lok Sabha and State Assembly:
In order to provide
facilities to the Central Govt. employees who reside at a place where the date
of polling is different from that at the place where their office is situated
and where the day of poll at the place of residence is not a public or closed
holiday. They should be given a day's special casual leave to enable them to
exercise their franchise.
Grant of paid holiday to
employees on the day of Poll. -
(1) Every person employed in
any business, trade, industrial undertaking or any other establishment and
entitled to vote at an election to the House of the People or the Legislative
Assembly of a State shall, on the day of poll, be granted a holiday.
(2) No deduction or abatement
of the wages of any such person shall be made on account of a holiday having
been granted in accordance with sub-section (1) and if such person is employed
on the basis that he would not ordinarily receive wages for such a day, he
shall nonetheless be paid for such day the wages he would have drawn had not a
holiday been granted to him on that day.
(3) If an employer contravenes
the provisions of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), then such employer shall
be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
(4) This section shall not
apply to any elector whose absence may cause danger or substantial loss in
respect of the employment in which he is engaged.
For closing of
central Government offices including industrial establishments in connection
with the elections indicated above.
(i) The relevant
organizations shall remain closed in the notified areas where general elections
to Lok Sabha or State legislative Assembly are scheduled to be conducted.
(ii) In connection
with bye-election to Lok Sabha/State Assembly, only such of the employees who
are bona-fide voters in the relevant constituency should be granted special
casual leave on the day of polling. Special Casual leave may also be granted to
an employee who is ordinarily a resident of a constituency and registered as a
voter but employed in any Central Government Organization I Industrial
Establishment located outside the constituency’s having a general/bye-election.
(iii) In connection
with local body elections, viz. Panchayat/ Corporation/Municipality. the
Government employees who are bonafide voters and desire to exercise their
franchise should be offered reasonable facility, subject to normal exigencies
of services, either by coming late to office or being allowed to leave office
early or a short absence on that day.
The employees
detailed on election duty may also be permitted to remain away from their
normal duties on polling day (s) as also on the days required for performing
journeys which might be undertaken in order to perform such election duty.
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