IOR/R/15/2/1451

The file contains Government of India circular letters, memoranda and notices that were issued mainly by the Finance Department between 1938 and 1941. There are also circulars from the Office of the Accountant-General, Central Revenues, the Home Department, the Department of Education, Health and Lands and other Government departments.

The circulars contain regulations, rules, procedures, interpretation and guidance about personnel matters such as pay, pension, leave, travelling allowance and other service conditions of Government of India employees, including:

• Central Civil Services (Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 1939;
• Amendments to the Civil Pensions (Commutation) Rules and to the Premature Retirement Rules;
• Amendments to the Civil Service Regulations and to the Revised rates of Pay Rules;
• Numerous amendments to the Fundamental Rules and the Supplementary Rules;
• Regulating the grant of compensatory personal allowance under Fundamental Rules, 1938;
• Counting of military service during the First World War (1914-1918) towards civil pension, under Civil Service Regulations;
• Recall of officers from leave out of India on the outbreak of war in 1939 and their entitlement to allowances and concessions under Fundamental and Supplementary Rules;
• Recruitment and conditions of appointment of temporary Government employees, 1939.

The file also contains correspondence in 1938 between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Accountant-General, Central Revenues, New Delhi regarding:

• rate payable for the transport of personal effects in the Trucial Coast area;
• method of calculating the leave salary of Persian Gulf clerks under the Revised Leave Rules, 1933.