IOR/R/15/2/1450

The file contains Government of India circular letters, memoranda and notices that were issued mainly by the Finance and Home Departments in 1937 and 1938. There are also circulars from the Office of the Accountant-General, Central Revenues, the Department of Education, Health and Lands, the Railway Department and others. The earliest enclosure in the file is a letter dated 2 June 1931 that was recirculated in 1937 (folio 22).

The circulars contain regulations, rules, procedures, interpretation and guidance about personnel matters such as pension entitlements, air and sea passage concessions, medical leave, treatment and expenses and other service conditions of Government of India employees, as follows:

• The Premature Retirement Rules, 1937;
• Numerous amendments to the Fundamental Rules;
• Several amendments to the Civil Service Regulations;
• Several amendments to the Revised Leave Rules, 1933;
• Several amendments to the Study Leave Rules and the Legal Study Rules, 1937;
• Several amendments to the Central Subordinate (Inferior) Services (Gratuity, Pension and Retirement) Rules, 1936;
• Amendments to the Indian Civil Service (Non-European Members) Provident Fund Rules;
• Procedure to follow under the Civil Account Code for the investigation and payment of claims to arrears of pay, allowances and increments;
• Interpretation of the rules relating to the grant of travelling allowance for journeys by road instead of rail;
• Policy on taking disciplinary action, under the Government Servants' Conduct Rules, against employees who have personal financial debts that are subject to debt recovery proceedings by their lenders;
• Interpretation of accounting rules that regulate the conditions under which a department of government may make charges for services or articles it has supplied and the procedure for recording such charges in Government accounts;
• Reciprocal arrangements between the Government of India and the Government of Bombay regarding medical treatment and fees in cases where their respective personnel become ill in the other Government’s territory;
• Procedures relating to the medical examination of Central Government employees for their fitness to work prior to appointment, or for other reasons;
• Travelling allowance rules regarding the rail fares and class of travel permissible for persons travelling with a high official.