Directorate of Estates

The Directorate of Estates is an attached office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs that allots and administers General Pool Residential Accommodation, the common pool of government houses for employees of eligible central government offices, under the Central Government General Pool Residential Accommodation Rules, 2017 (G.S.R. 598(E), 16 June 2017). It notifies and collects the licence fee, charges damages for overstay, and issues the No Demand Certificate that releases withheld gratuity.

For a central government employee the Directorate touches pay at three points. An allotment of a house ends house rent allowance and replaces it with a licence fee recovered from salary, which for a Level 7 employee in an X-class city means giving up Rs. 13,470 of allowance and paying Rs. 740 a month from 1 July 2026. A transfer, a retirement or a death starts a retention clock with its own licence fee. And at retirement, Rule 68 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 routes part of the retirement gratuity through the Directorate until the house is vacated and cleared.

The Directorate itself runs estates in nine cities, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Shimla, Chandigarh, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Nagpur, and the Central Public Works Department administers the rest on its behalf. Its frequently asked questions of December 2020 counted Delhi and 39 stations outside Delhi under its control. Allotment, licence fee accounts, retention requests and the No Demand Certificate all run through eSampada, the portal launched on 25 December 2020.

This article covers the Directorate’s legal position and organisation, the 2017 Rules, entitlement by pay matrix level, the allotment process, the licence fee and its revision, retention and regularisation, damages and eviction, the No Demand Certificate and its link to pension, and the functions outside housing, including Vigyan Bhawan and holiday homes.

Legal status and allocation of business

The Directorate of Estates describes itself as “an Attached Office under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs” in its proactive disclosure under section 4(1)(b) of the Right to Information Act, 2005. Its subject comes from the Allocation of Business Rules, 1961, which assign work to ministries and departments.

Amendment Series No. 386 dated 22 July 2026 split the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs into two departments. The Department of Capital Development (Rajdhani Vikas Vibhag) received item 5, “Administration of Government estates including Government hostels under the control of the Ministry”, and item 6, “Allotment of accommodation in Vigyan Bhawan”, along with the four rehabilitation markets in Delhi at Sarojini Nagar, Shankar Market, Pleasure Garden and Kamla Market. The Department of Urban Development received the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971 and the Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property Act, 1952, as items 24 and 25. The eviction statute the Directorate enforces sits in a different department from the estates it manages.

The Rules allocate subjects, not offices, and item 1 of the Department of Capital Development excludes from “Properties of the Union” those of the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Railways, the Department of Atomic Energy and the Department of Space. Those four hold their own housing.

Organisation and reach

The Director of Estates heads the Directorate and is assisted by the Director of Estates-II, according to the same disclosure. Deputy Directors, Assistant Directors and Superintendents (Accounts) run the allotment, policy and accounts sections below them, and the policy orders on licence fee and damages are signed by the Deputy Director of Estates (Policy).

Rule 2(f) of the 2017 Rules defines the “Directorate of Estates” as the office of the Directorate together with the Estates Offices under the Central Public Works Department that discharge its functions for accommodation. Rule 2(g) extends “Director of Estates” to Additional, Deputy and Assistant Directors of Estates. The definition matters because an allottee in a city the Directorate does not run directly still deals with the Directorate for rule purposes, through a CPWD Estate Manager or Assistant Estate Manager.

The Directorate’s own regional offices are in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Shimla, Chandigarh, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Nagpur.

Rule 70 delegates the Directorate’s powers on subletting at regional stations outside Delhi to the Superintending Engineer (Civil) of CPWD. The press release announcing eSampada on 25 December 2020 put the Directorate’s holdings at over one lakh residences, 45 office complexes at 28 locations and 1,176 holiday home rooms.

The Central Government General Pool Residential Accommodation Rules, 2017

The Central Government General Pool Residential Accommodation Rules, 2017 were notified by the then Ministry of Urban Development as G.S.R. 598(E) dated 16 June 2017, under the proviso to article 309 of the Constitution, and came into force on publication in the Gazette on 19 June 2017. They superseded the Allotment of Government Residences (General Pool in Delhi) Rules, 1963, first issued as S.O. 1330 dated 11 May 1963 and amended 35 times, and the Garage Rules, 1964.

The 2017 Rules are divided into 15 parts. The rules that reach an employee’s pay packet fall in five groups:

• Rules 4 to 9: eligible offices, types of accommodation, entitlement by pay level, and the date of priority.
• Rules 10 to 38: application, the unified waiting list, the Automated System of Allotment, acceptance, and the special pools and reservations.
• Rules 40 to 43: the concessional periods of retention after transfer, retirement, death and other events.
• Rules 49 to 53: regularisation in the name of a spouse or ward.
• Rules 73 to 81: licence fee, its revision, damages, and recovery of arrears.

Rule 85 requires every ministry to consult the Ministry of Urban Development, now the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, before making any rule on General Pool accommodation or constructing departmental residential accommodation. Rule 87 requires ministries to report to the Directorate, within 15 days, the outcome of disciplinary proceedings under the CCS (Conduct) Rules, 1964 in proven subletting cases.

Types of accommodation and entitlement by pay level

Rule 8 of the 2017 Rules links each type of house to a 7th Central Pay Commission pay matrix level. The table combines rule 8’s Table I with the living area bands and the licence fee in the annexure to Directorate OM No. 18011/2/2015-Pol.III dated 17 July 2026, effective 1 July 2026.

Rule 6 classes Types I to IV as “lower type” and Type IV (Special) to Type VIII as “higher type”, a split that recurs in the damages rates and in the instalment rule for arrears. Table I as notified prints Level 11 against both Type IV and Type IV (Special), the latter with the pre-2016 grade pay of Rs. 6,600 alongside it.

Hostel accommodation sits under rule 7 and rule 8(2). A single suite with or without a kitchen is open from Level 6, a double suite from Level 9, and a working girls’ hostel to every woman employee without any pay limit. From 1 July 2026 the licence fee is Rs. 620 for a single room without kitchen (21.5 to 30 sq m), Rs. 870 for a single room with kitchen (30.5 to 39.5 sq m) and Rs. 1,200 for a double room (47.5 to 60 sq m).

Date of priority

Rule 8(3) decides who is housed first within a type. For Types I to IV the date of priority is the date of joining central government service, and an applicant may bid for one type below the entitlement. Rule 8(3)(b) adds one year of seniority for each completed five years of continuous service at the station, counted as on 1 January. For Type IV (Special) and above, the date of priority is the date from which the officer has been continuously eligible for that type. A promotion from Level 10 to Level 12 resets the queue position: the officer enters the Type V A list on the date of becoming eligible for it.

Eligible offices and applying for a house

An employee can apply only if the office is eligible. Rules 4 and 5 require the office to be a Secretariat, attached or subordinate office of the central government, paid from the Consolidated Fund of India, and in Delhi located at a place approved by the Cabinet or its Committee on Accommodation. An office applies to the Directorate for eligibility after obtaining the approval of the Joint Secretary of its ministry. A public sector undertaking or an autonomous body is ineligible, though rule 36(2) allows surplus houses to be offered to such bodies.

Rule 10(1) lets a central government servant apply online or through the office on first appointment or on transfer to a station, to the Directorate or the CPWD Estate Office. The proviso bars any application within six months of the date of superannuation. Applications received before a bidding date enter the unified waiting list for the next bidding cycle under rule 10(2).

The Automated System of Allotment

Rule 11 keeps one unified waiting list for each type, except Types VII and VIII, and rule 13(1) allots vacancies from that list through the Automated System of Allotment. The Directorate’s disclosure records that the online application form, acceptance, the No Demand Certificate application, the rent bill and the authority slip went online in 2014-15. Rule 12 deletes the name of an applicant who has neither updated the personal data nor opted for any house during the past year.

The deadlines after a successful bid are short. Rule 15 gives eight days from the date of allotment to accept. Rule 16 gives five working days from receipt of the acceptance letter to take physical possession from CPWD or the maintenance agency, which issues a Physical Occupation Report on handing over. Rule 17(1) debars an allottee who fails either step from applying for three months, and rule 73(2) charges one month’s licence fee from the date of allotment to an allottee who accepts but does not take possession within eight days of the authority letter, unless the house was not habitable.

Rule 44 allows one change of house within the same type, only after taking possession of the first allotment, and none within six months of superannuation.

Special pools and reservation

Rules 27 to 38 carve out pools that sit outside the general queue: a Ladies Pool, a Tenure Officers Pool for All India Services officers on central deputation under the Central Staffing Scheme, a Tenure Pool for other services, a Secretaries Pool, a Law Officers Pool, a Transit Hostel Pool for Deputy Secretaries and Directors under the Central Staffing Scheme for six months, and houses for the personal staff of Ministers and dignitaries. Rule 37 reserves 5% of Type I and Type II allotments and 10% of Type III and Type IV allotments for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe employees, split in the ratio 2:1 through a 60-point roster with separate waiting lists.

Rule 24 bars a second allotment to a married couple: no house is allotted where the spouse already holds one unless it is surrendered, and two allottees who marry must surrender one house within a month. Directorate OM No. 12035/14/2024-Pol.II dated 26 July 2024 clarified that rule 24 applies only where both spouses are posted at the same station, so spouses posted at different stations may each hold a house according to entitlement.

State and Union Territory employees in Delhi are housed only through the Directorate, up to six units for each State and three for each Union Territory on the recommendation of the Chief Secretary’s nominee, and up to Type VI A, according to the Directorate’s December 2020 frequently asked questions.

eSampada

eSampada is the Directorate’s single online system for allotment, licence fee accounts, retention, the No Demand Certificate and bookings. The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing and Urban Affairs launched it on 25 December 2020, according to a Press Information Bureau release of that date, merging four websites (gpra.nic.in, eawas.nic.in, estates.gov.in and holidayhomes.nic.in) and two mobile apps (m-Awas and m-Ashoka5). The Directorate’s orders, frequently asked questions and forms are published on esampada.mohua.gov.in.

Through eSampada an employee bids in the Automated System of Allotment, checks the licence fee credited against the allottee account, applies for retention or regularisation, applies for the No Demand Certificate after vacating, and books a holiday home or a social function venue. The frequently asked questions tell an allottee to check the licence fee account on eSampada before applying for the certificate and to settle any missing month with the Drawing and Disbursing Officer first.

Licence fee

The licence fee is “a fee payable monthly in respect of the accommodation allotted under these rules”, in the words of rule 2(p) of the 2017 Rules. It is a flat rate for each type, the same across the country, recovered from salary by the Drawing and Disbursing Officer. Liability begins on the date of physical occupation under rule 73(1). Rule 73(4) cancels the allotment if no licence fee is received for four continuous months, which is how a missed salary recovery during long leave can end an allotment.

Rule 74 fixes the revision cycle. The normal licence fee is revised every three years on the Average All India Consumer Price Index by the central government, applies to all types throughout the country, and takes effect from 1 July of the year next following or another date the government directs. The three revisions under the 2017 Rules have all been issued under File No. 18011/2/2015-Pol.III.

The 2026 revision raised Type III from Rs. 660 to Rs. 740, an increase of 12.1%, against 17.9% in the 2023 revision (Rs. 560 to Rs. 660). Each OM applies to General Pool Residential Accommodation and to the departmental pools of ministries throughout the country, “except in respect of substandard/unclassified accommodation of Ministry of Defence, accommodation for service personnel of the Ministry of Defence and accommodation under the control of Ministry of Railways”. No Pay Commission sets the licence fee; the price index under rule 74 does. On the three-year cycle the next revision would fall due from 1 July 2029, unless the central government directs another date under rule 74(2).

Other licence fee rates

Rule 23(2) charges a higher rate, specified by the Directorate, to an allottee who owns a house at the station. Rule 79 charges a special licence fee for temporary allotment and for houses given to ineligible offices; at the rates in force from 1 July 2020, the Directorate’s frequently asked questions put it at 9 times the flat rate for Types I to III and hostels, 12 times for Types IV to V B, servant quarters and garages, and 20 times for Type VI A and above. Rule 77 requires the licence fee for any retention period to be paid in advance.

Licence fee and house rent allowance

An allotment and house rent allowance cannot run together. Paragraph 4.1 of Department of Expenditure OM No. 2/4/2022-E.II(B) dated 30 December 2022 bars house rent allowance to an occupant of General Pool Residential Accommodation. The Directorate’s frequently asked questions add that an allottee in unauthorised occupation who is paying damages is still barred from the allowance. The requirement for a Non-Availability Certificate from the Estate Manager to draw house rent allowance at a station with surplus housing was dispensed with for General Pool accommodation throughout the country from 5 March 2019.

A worked comparison for a Level 7 employee at the entry pay of Rs. 44,900 posted in an X-class city shows the trade. At the 30% rate for X-class cities under the city classification for HRA, house rent allowance is Rs. 13,470 a month. A Type III house costs Rs. 740 a month in licence fee from 1 July 2026. Taking the house therefore lowers take-home pay by Rs. 14,210 a month (Rs. 13,470 of allowance forgone plus Rs. 740 recovered), and the allotment pays only where comparable market rent exceeds that figure. The take-home salary article works the same trade through the full pay slip.

Arrears in instalments

Rule 81 lets the Directorate accept arrears of licence fee in instalments in deserving cases. The allottee pays 10% of the dues in advance for Types I to IV, or 50% for Type IV (Special) and above, and the balance in equated monthly instalments of at least 10% of basic pay plus dearness allowance, with interest at the General Provident Fund rate. Two permanent government servants who will not superannuate before the recovery ends stand as sureties. Rule 81(3) adjusts any balance left unrecovered against the gratuity where the allottee is a victim of a calamity.

Retention after transfer, retirement, death and other events

Rule 40(1) of the 2017 Rules lets an allottee keep the house for a fixed concessional period after an event that ends the entitlement, provided the house is needed for the bona fide use of the allottee or the family. The periods are:

Rule 40(2) gives a licence-fee-free allottee one month after retirement without licence fee, after which licence fee is payable for any further retention. Rule 42 allows an allottee on transfer two months, or leave of up to four months sanctioned before relinquishing charge, whichever is more, on normal licence fee, and extends the period to cover joining time taken after that leave.

The table resolves a common confusion about resignation. A resigning employee is not refused retention: rule 40(1)(i) allows one month on normal licence fee. What resignation removes is regularisation, because rule 53(c) bars regularisation of the house in the name of a spouse or ward “in the event of resignation from Government service”. Technical resignation is placed in the six-month row of rule 40(1)(ii) as notified, while the Directorate’s 2020 frequently asked questions describe retention on a technical resignation to an ineligible office as at par with transfer.

Non-family stations

An allottee posted to a non-family station may keep the house at the last place of posting for the family under government guidelines, and rule 43 caps that retention, including for AGMUT cadre officers, at three years. Rule 41 preserves the normal retention periods on that house if the allottee retires, is transferred or dies while serving at the non-family station. Directorate OM No. 12035/4/2015-Pol.II dated 7 August 2024 extended the concession on normal licence fee to civilian employees, including Central Armed Police Forces and All India Services officers, posted to non-family stations beyond 30 June 2024, until further orders and within the three-year ceiling.

Regularisation in the name of a spouse or ward

Rules 49 to 51 let the house pass to a family member in government service instead of being vacated. On death (rule 49) and retirement (rule 50) the same house may be regularised in the name of an eligible spouse or ward, or an alternate house of the entitled type allotted. Where the spouse or ward is entitled to a higher type, one type below the entitlement is allotted, up to Type V, and rules 49(3) and 50(3) attach two conditions: three years of residence with the allottee without drawing house rent allowance, and joining government service within two years of the death or within the retention period after retirement. A married daughter or a daughter-in-law working in an eligible office counts as a ward. Rule 51 gives the same facility to the spouse of a transferred allottee.

Rule 53 withholds the facility where the family owns a house at the station, subject to a proviso for spouses and wards whose priority date is already reached, and on resignation. All dues on the house must be cleared before the application for regularisation is made, under rule 52(3) for death and retirement cases and rule 51(5) for transfers.

Damages for unauthorised occupation and subletting

Once the retention period ends or the allotment is cancelled, the occupant owes damages, not licence fee. Rule 63 makes a person who stays on after cancellation liable for damages for use and occupation, and rule 76 leaves the rates to the Directorate. The current rates are in Directorate OM No. 18011/1/2015-Pol.III dated 7 September 2016, effective 1 July 2016, which superseded the orders of 4 June 2013 on unauthorised occupation and 22 June 2015 on subletting.

Damages for the first month are a multiple of the licence fee:

From the second month the rate rises by a telescopic method: the first-month damages plus 10% of that rate in the second month, plus 20% in the third, plus 40% in the fourth, and so on, up to a maximum of five times the first-month damages. Subletting proved against an allottee is charged at two times these damages, on the same telescopic scale. Water and furniture charges are added at normal rates.

A Type II house in Delhi at the licence fee of Rs. 490 in force from 1 July 2026 shows the scale:

Four months of overstay in a house whose licence fee is Rs. 490 a month therefore cost Rs. 92,120 in damages. For a retired employee those damages are among the accommodation dues recoverable from the gratuity under Rule 67(2) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021, and Rule 68(8) allows any balance left after the withheld gratuity is exhausted to be recovered from dearness relief without the pensioner’s consent.

Eviction under the Public Premises Act

Eviction from a government house runs under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971 (40 of 1971), not under tenancy law, because a government allottee holds a licence and not a lease. Rule 64(1) of the 2017 Rules requires a vacation notice to the allottee or family at least 15 days before the retention period expires, and rule 64(2) requires a show cause notice under the 1971 Act if the house is not vacated when it ends. The Estate Officer who issues it is an officer notified under the Act; for subletting cases outside Delhi, rule 69(3) names the Assistant Estate Manager or the Executive Engineer (Civil) of CPWD.

The Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Amendment Act, 2019 added a faster track for residential accommodation. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs announced on 16 September 2019 that it had come into effect that day, and that the Estate Officer would issue a show cause notice of three days before evicting an unauthorised occupant of government housing, without the procedure under sections 4 and 5 of the Act. The Bill as introduced in the Lok Sabha (Bill No. 145 of 2019) did this through a new section 3B, which provides a show cause period of three working days, service by affixing the notice, and an eviction order enforceable with force, and a new section 7(3A), which makes an occupant who challenges the eviction order in court pay damages for every month of the litigation.

No Demand Certificate and the pension case

The No Demand Certificate is the Directorate’s confirmation that no licence fee, damages or other accommodation dues are outstanding against a vacated house, and it releases the part of the retirement gratuity held back for those dues. The pension rules build the Directorate into the retirement timetable at four points:

1. One year before retirement. Rule 55(1) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 requires the Head of Office to send the retiring allottee’s accommodation details to the Directorate.
2. Within two months of that intimation. Rule 68(1)(a) requires the Directorate to report any licence fee recoverable for the period before the last eight months of service; one month applies to a retirement other than superannuation under Rule 68(1)(b). Under Rule 68(1)(c), silence past the stipulated date means nothing is recoverable. Rule 68(2) recovers the licence fee for the last eight months from pay.
3. At sanction. Rule 68(5) allows 10% of the gratuity to be withheld where the Directorate cannot determine the outstanding licence fee, and Rule 68(6) requires it to be paid on production of the No Demand Certificate after actual vacation.
4. After vacation. Rule 68(7)(a) requires the Directorate to issue the certificate within 14 days of an application made after the house is vacated. If it does not, Rule 68(7)(b) and (c) make it liable for interest at the General Provident Fund rate on the excess withheld gratuity, from the date of application to the date of refund.

The Directorate’s Citizen’s Charter sets 14 working days for issuing the certificate and lists the documents: the online application on eSampada forwarded by the office, the CPWD vacation report, the recovery certificate from the Drawing and Disbursing Officer, no-objection certificates from the electricity, water and gas utilities (NDMC, DJB, BSES and IGL in Delhi), the cancellation letter, the challan for any deposit, and any earlier clearance certificate. Rule 61(2) of the 2017 Rules bars the maintenance agency from accepting vacation until utility dues are paid, so the utility certificates come first.

Retention and gratuity interact. A retiree who keeps the house for the full six months under rule 40(1)(ii) cannot apply for the certificate until vacating it, so the withheld part of the gratuity waits at least that long. The withholding and recovery from gratuity article covers the recoverable dues in full, and interest on delayed pension covers the Rule 68(7) interest. On a death in service, Rule 71(4)(c) requires the Head of Office to address the Directorate for the certificate within seven days of receiving intimation of the death.

Functions outside residential allotment

The Directorate’s disclosure lists functions beyond General Pool housing:

• Vigyan Bhawan. Built in 1956, the conference centre has been in the Directorate’s custody since 2 December 1992, and its allotment is item 6 of the ministry’s business.
• Holiday homes and touring officers’ hostels. Maintained by CPWD and booked through eSampada, including the holiday home at the Grand Hotel, Shimla. Serving and retired central, State, Union Territory and public sector employees can book them.
• Social function venues. 5 Ashoka Road, a Type VIII bungalow maintained by CPWD, and the Kidwai Nagar (East) lawn, maintained by NBCC, each bookable for up to five days for marriages and social functions.
• Office accommodation. General Pool Office Accommodation in Delhi and other cities is allotted to eligible central government offices. Directorate OM No. 11015/1/98-Pol.I of March 2017 (day illegible on the published copy) revised the office space scales after the 7th Pay Commission, at 360 sq ft for Levels 14 to 18 and 240 sq ft for Levels 12, 13 and 13A.
• Markets and other statutes. Markets in government colonies in Delhi, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Nagpur and Mumbai, the Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property Act, 1952, and the Ministers’ Residences Rules, 1962.

Accommodation outside the Directorate’s remit

A large share of central government housing is not General Pool. The licence fee OMs exclude accommodation under the control of the Ministry of Railways, which houses railway employees, and the substandard, unclassified and service-personnel accommodation of the Ministry of Defence. The Department of Atomic Energy and the Department of Space hold their own properties under the Allocation of Business Rules.

Other ministries keep departmental pools for their own staff. Rule 35 of the 2017 Rules governs alternate allotment from the general pool to an occupant of a departmental pool house, and the Directorate’s frequently asked questions state that subletting in a departmental pool house is not decided by the Directorate. The licence fee OMs apply their flat rates to departmental pools across the country, so a departmental quarter usually carries the same Rs. 740 for a Type III house from 1 July 2026 even though a different office allots it.

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• No Demand Certificate
• House rent allowance
• City classification for HRA
• HRA exemption under Section 10(13A)
• Take-home salary of a central government employee
• Salary by pay level
• Pay matrix
• 7th Central Pay Commission
• Dearness allowance
• Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
• Central Public Works Department
• Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971
• Department of Expenditure
• Gratuity for central government employees
• Withholding and recovery from gratuity
• Death gratuity
• Pension sanction process and timeline
• Interest on delayed pension and gratuity
• CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021
• Central government pension
• Provisional pension
• Anticipatory pension
• Bhavishya portal
• Head of Office
• Drawing and Disbursing Officer
• Dearness relief
• Superannuation
• Voluntary retirement
• Resignation from government service
• Technical resignation
• Compulsory retirement
• Dismissal and removal from service
• Foreign service
• Deputation in central government
• Central Staffing Scheme
• Joining time
• Study leave
• Leave preparatory to retirement
• General Provident Fund
• All India Services
• Railway employees

External references

• eSampada portal, Directorate of Estates
• Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
• Central Public Works Department
• Allocation of Business Rules, 1961 (Cabinet Secretariat)
• Press Information Bureau: launch of eSampada, 25 December 2020
• Press Information Bureau: Public Premises Amendment Act, 2019 in force, 16 September 2019
• Department of Expenditure

References

1. Central Government General Pool Residential Accommodation Rules, 2017, Ministry of Urban Development (Directorate of Estates) notification G.S.R. 598(E) dated 16 June 2017, Gazette of India Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3(i), 19 June 2017.
2. Directorate of Estates, Office Memorandum No. 18011/2/2015-Pol.III dated 17 July 2026, revision of licence fee for General Pool Residential Accommodation with effect from 1 July 2026; and the earlier OMs under the same file dated 7 July 2020 and 10 July 2023.
3. Directorate of Estates, Office Memorandum No. 18011/1/2015-Pol.III dated 7 September 2016, revision of rates of damages for unauthorised occupation and subletting with effect from 1 July 2016.
4. Directorate of Estates, Office Memorandum No. 12035/14/2024-Pol.II dated 26 July 2024, clarification of rule 24; and Office Memorandum No. 12035/4/2015-Pol.II dated 7 August 2024, retention on posting to non-family stations.
5. Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961, as amended by Amendment Series No. 386 dated 22 July 2026, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs entries.
6. Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971 (40 of 1971); Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Amendment Bill, 2019 (Bill No. 145 of 2019) as introduced in the Lok Sabha; Press Information Bureau release of 16 September 2019.
7. CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021, Rules 55, 67, 68 and 71.
8. Department of Expenditure, Office Memorandum No. 2/4/2022-E.II(B) dated 30 December 2022, house rent allowance, paragraph 4.1.
9. Directorate of Estates, Frequently Asked Questions on General Pool Residential Accommodation (revised 16 December 2020), Citizen’s Charter, and disclosure under section 4(1)(b) of the Right to Information Act, 2005.