IOR/R/15/2/1452

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

The circulars contain regulations, rules, procedures, interpretation and guidance about personnel matters such as pay, pensions, allowances, medical examinations and treatments and other service conditions of Government of India employees, as follows:

• Amendments to the Revised Leave Rules, 1933, including an enhanced leave entitlement for temporary staff in the Persian Gulf, 1940s;
• Medical examinations of candidates for appointment to Government service extended to temporary as well as permanent appointees, 1942;
• Grant of special disability leave, including those sustaining war injuries, under Fundamental Rules and Civil Service Regulations, 1943;
• Grant of leave to Government servants undergoing treatment for tuberculosis, 1940s;
• Treatment of annual War Leave as privilege leave under Fundamental Rules, 1944;
• Temporary increases in pensions to Government of India pensioners, on account of the increased cost of living due to the war, and improvements to the pension prospects of staff of the Persian Gulf, 1944-1945;
• Interpretation of the expression 'posts outside the ordinary line of a service' in Fundamental Rules in relation to temporary promotions, 1944;
• Arrangements made between the Government of India and the Government of Bombay regarding medical examination, treatment and charges payable, when Government of India employees stationed in or passing through the cities of Bombay or Poona are taken ill and attended to by Government of Bombay medical officers and services, 1942;
• Procedure regarding the sanction of pensions to military officers of the Indian Political Service, 1941-1942;
• Revision of existing rates of road mileage and daily allowances under Fundamental and Supplementary Rules, 1940s.

There are also a few, routine medical certificates declaring several new members of staff at the British Political Agency, Bahrain as fit to work, 1940s.