Joining time

Joining time is the period a central government employee is allowed, on transfer in the public interest, to hand over charge of the old post, travel, and take up the new one. It is granted under the Central Civil Services (Joining Time) Rules, 1979, notified by the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms as Notification No. 21011/2/79-Allowances dated 8 May 1979 under the proviso to Article 309 and clause (5) of Article 148 of the Constitution, after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General in relation to persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, and published in the Gazette of India of 19 May 1979 as G.S.R. 695. The employee is on duty throughout the period and draws joining-time pay.

The entitlement runs from 10 to 15 days on a distance scale set by Rule 5(4). It is 12 days where the transfer necessarily involves continuous travel by road for more than 200 km on the shorter slab, 15 days on the longer ones, and never more than 12 days where the journey is by air. Two additional days are allowed to or from the North Eastern Region including Sikkim, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep and Ladakh. Not more than one day is allowed where the new post is in the same station or the move involves no change of residence.

Two amendments have reshaped the Rules since 1979. Notification No. 19011/12/86-Estt.(Allow.) dated 10 March 1989, issued as G.S.R. 197, substituted Rule 6. G.S.R. 229(E) dated 27 March 2015 substituted Rule 4(4), Rule 6(1), Rule 6(3) and the notes to Rule 5(4), and inserted two notes under Rule 7. The 2015 amendment is why the mechanics of unutilised joining time now sit in the CCS (Leave) Rules, 1972 rather than in the Joining Time Rules themselves, and why an employee who reaches a central post through an open competitive examination is covered by name.

Joining time answers how long the move may take. The composite transfer grant and the transfer travelling allowance answer what the move costs, and the two entitlements are decided under different orders.

What joining time is

Joining time is the time allowed to a government servant in which to join a new post or to travel to a station to which the servant is posted. That is the definition in Rule 3(c) of the CCS (Joining Time) Rules, 1979, and it repeats Fundamental Rule 9(10) almost word for word. Rule 3(d) defines “transfer” as the movement of a government servant from one post to another, either within the same station or to another station, to take up the duties of a new post or in consequence of a change of headquarters.

The 1979 Rules replaced the earlier regime. Rule 10 repeals all rules and instructions on the subject of joining time in force immediately before the commencement of the Rules and applicable to the government servants to whom the Rules apply. Fundamental Rules 105 to 107, which carried the old preparation-and-transit scheme, are no longer printed in the Fundamental Rules compilation, which directs the reader to the 1979 Rules instead. What survives from the Fundamental Rules is Rule 108 on overstayal, Rule 108-A on a person coming from private employment, Rule 9(10) on the definition, and Rule 26(e) on increments.

Rule 1(2) brought the Rules into force on the date of issue of the notification and applied them to transfers effected on or after that date. The operative date is therefore 8 May 1979, not the Gazette publication date of 19 May 1979.

Two other definitions in Rule 3 matter in practice. “Head of Department” means the authority declared as such under the Delegation of Financial Powers Rules, 1978, and in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department the authority declared as such by the Comptroller and Auditor General. “Department of Government of India” means a ministry or department of the Central Government as notified from time to time and any other authority exercising the powers of a department, with the Comptroller and Auditor General exercising those powers for persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, a clause inserted by Notification No. 19011/2/82-Allowances dated 27 December 1982. Both definitions carry weight because Rule 5(5) splits the power to extend joining time between the two.

Who the Rules cover and who they exclude

Rule 1(3) applies the CCS (Joining Time) Rules, 1979 to all government servants appointed to civil services and posts under the Central Government, including work-charged staff. It then excludes four categories: railway employees; armed forces personnel and those paid from the Defence Services Estimates; government servants engaged on contract and those not in whole-time employment of the Government; and government servants paid out of contingencies.

The exclusion is not permanent for those categories. Rule 2(2) provides that the joining time of railway employees, armed forces personnel, those paid from the Defence Services Estimates, and employees of a state government or any other organisation who are appointed to civil services and posts under the Central Government on deputation or on foreign service is regulated by these Rules for joining the central post and for the return journey, unless different provisions are expressly made in the terms of deputation or foreign service by mutual agreement between the lending and the borrowing authorities.

Rule 2(1) runs the other way. Where a government servant to whom these Rules apply is transferred to the control of another government or organisation that has made separate rules prescribing the amount of joining time, the outward and return journeys are governed by those rules, again unless the terms of deputation or foreign service settled between the lending and borrowing authorities say otherwise. The practical consequence is that the terms of a deputation, not the Rules, decide the question wherever the two sides have addressed it.

When joining time is granted

Rule 4(1) grants joining time to a government servant on transfer in the public interest, to enable the servant to join the new post either at the same station or at a new one. The same sub-rule denies it for a temporary transfer for a period not exceeding 180 days, where only the actual transit time, as admissible on a journey on tour, may be allowed. A move of 180 days or less is treated as a tour for this purpose, and the transit is covered by the tour rules rather than by a joining-time entitlement.

Rule 4(2) makes surplus staff transferred from one post to another under the Scheme Regulating Redeployment of Surplus Staff eligible for joining time. Rule 4(3) covers employees discharged on reduction of establishment from one central government office and reappointed to another: joining time is admissible where the appointment orders to the new post reach the employee while still working in the old post, and where the employee is appointed only after discharge, the period of break may be converted into joining time without pay by the Head of Department, provided the break does not exceed 30 days and the employee has rendered not less than three years of continuous service on the date of discharge.

Rule 4(4), as substituted by G.S.R. 229(E) dated 27 March 2015, covers appointment to a central post on the results of a competitive examination or an interview open to government servants and others. Central government employees and permanent or provisionally permanent state government employees are entitled to joining time under the Rules in that situation, on the condition that they opt for their past service in the Central Government or a state government to be counted for all purposes in the Central Government. This is the provision that gives joining time to the serving employee who clears an open examination and moves on technical resignation, and the counting option is the same option that protects past service under Rule 26 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021.

Joining time is not admissible to a candidate entering government service for the first time. Nothing in Rule 4 grants it, and Rule 4(4) is drawn specifically around employees who already hold a government post and opt to carry their service forward. A fresh recruit reports on the date fixed in the appointment order.

Transfer at the employee’s own request

Joining time follows the public interest, not the employee’s convenience. Rule 4(1) grants it on transfer in the public interest, and Office Memorandum No. 19011/33/81-Allowances dated 29 January 1983 addresses the other case: where a government servant is transferred on their own request, the intervening period between relinquishment of charge at the old place of posting and taking charge at the new place may be regularised by the grant of leave applicable to the servant. The employee is not left with an unexplained gap, but the days come out of the leave account rather than being added to it.

The distinction has a second limb in the redeployment scheme. Ministry of Home Affairs Office Memorandum No. 1/6/67-CS.III dated 7 July 1967 provides that transfers under the surplus staff scheme are ordinarily treated as being in the public interest, with joining time, joining-time pay and transfer travelling allowance admissible, but that where the move to a post in the new organisation is on the employee’s own initiative rather than arranged by the Central Cell, only joining time without joining-time pay is allowed and no transfer travelling allowance is admissible.

The choice between the two routes is worth making deliberately. A transfer sought by the employee costs earned leave or another form of leave from the balance, and it forfeits the composite transfer grant as well, because the same public-interest test governs the transfer travelling allowance.

When joining time begins

Rule 5(1) starts the joining time on the date of relinquishment of charge of the old post where charge is made over in the forenoon, and on the following date where charge is made over in the afternoon. The half-day distinction decides which calendar date is counted first, and it is settled by the handing-over entry rather than by the date on the transfer order.

Rule 5(2) fixes the point from which the days are counted. Joining time is calculated from the old headquarters in all cases, including where the government servant receives the transfer orders or makes over charge of the old post at a place other than the old headquarters, where the headquarters of a servant on tour is changed to the tour station itself, and where a temporary transfer is converted into a permanent transfer. An employee who happens to be away when the orders arrive does not gain or lose days by that accident.

Rule 5(3) caps the entitlement at not more than one day’s joining time where the new post is within the same station or the move does not involve a change of residence from one station to another. The same sub-rule defines “same station” as the area falling within the jurisdiction of the municipality or corporation, including such suburban municipalities, notified areas or cantonments as are contiguous to the named municipality. A move across a municipal boundary into a contiguous suburb is therefore a move within the same station, and it carries one day at most.

The distance schedule under Rule 5(4)

Rule 5(4) sets the joining time by the distance between the old headquarters and the new headquarters, measured by the direct route and the ordinary mode or modes of travel, for a transfer from one station to another that also involves a change of residence. The days shown are the whole of the joining time, and no separate preparation period is added to them.

Two notes, substituted by G.S.R. 229(E) dated 27 March 2015, qualify the schedule. Note 1 provides that distance means the actual distance travelled and not the weighted mileage for which fare is charged by the railways in certain ghat or hill regions, so an employee crossing a hill section is paid transit on the real kilometres rather than the fare-computation figure. Note 2 grants two days of additional time over and above the normal joining time, reckoned on the actual distance between the old and new places of posting, on transfer to or from the North Eastern Region including Sikkim, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep and Ladakh.

Rule 5(4) also carries a holiday provision in its own text: where a holiday or holidays follow the joining time, the normal joining time may be deemed to have been extended to cover them. The employee is not required to report on a day the office is closed and then treat the intervening days as leave.

An employee transferred from Delhi to Chennai, about 2,180 km apart by rail, falls in the third row and takes 15 days, reduced to 12 if the journey is by air. A transfer from Delhi to Lucknow, about 500 km, takes 10 days, or 12 days if the move necessarily involves continuous road travel of more than 200 km. A transfer from Guwahati to Kolkata, about 1,000 km, takes 10 days plus the two additional days under Note 2, because the move is from the North Eastern Region.

Extension of joining time under Rule 5(5)

Rule 5(5) allows the joining time to be extended beyond the limits in Rule 5(4). The Head of Department may grant an extension up to a maximum of 30 days. Beyond 30 days the power rests with the Department of the Government of India, which under Rule 3(a) means the ministry or department concerned, or the Comptroller and Auditor General for persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department.

The same sub-rule states the standard that governs the discretion. The guiding principle is that the total period of joining time should be approximately equal to 8 days for preparation plus reasonable transit time plus holidays, if any, following the extended joining time. The 8 days are the preparation component of an extended period, not a ceiling on ordinary joining time, and they do not displace the Rule 5(4) schedule, which already covers preparation and travel together.

Rule 5(5) then names three grounds on which transit time itself may be computed generously: time unavoidably spent because transport arrangements were disrupted by a strike, time lost to a natural calamity, and the period spent awaiting the departure of the steamer. The third ground is the one that matters for the island territories, where sailings are infrequent.

Journeys to and from remote localities carry their own scheme. Office Memorandum No. 21011/12/79-Allowances dated 16 November 1979 and Office Memorandum No. 19011/30/81-Allowances dated 13 October 1981 were issued for that purpose and were superseded by Office Memorandum No. 19011/30/81-Estt.(Allowances) dated 17 September 1984, which grants transit time once in a calendar year to cover the journey between a listed remote locality and the specified station for an employee proceeding on or returning from leave. An employee domiciled in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands or Lakshadweep and recruited for service in that territory, when posted to the mainland in the public interest, is entitled to joining time once a year while proceeding to and returning from the territory on leave.

Joining-time pay under Rule 7

Rule 7 treats a government servant on joining time as on duty during that period and entitles the servant to joining-time pay equal to the pay drawn before relinquishment of charge in the old post. The employee is also entitled to dearness allowance, if any, appropriate to the joining-time pay, and may draw compensatory allowances such as city compensatory allowance and house rent allowance as applicable to the old station from which the transfer was made. Joining time is therefore paid at the old post’s rate and on the old station’s allowance rates until the employee reports at the new station.

Rule 7 bars two payments by name. A government servant on joining time is not allowed conveyance allowance or permanent travelling allowance. Both are attached to the performance of duty at a station, and neither survives a period in which no duty is being performed at either station.

Two notes inserted under Rule 7 by G.S.R. 229(E) dated 27 March 2015 settle the administrative questions. Note 1 requires the sanction of the admissible joining time to be accorded by the competent authority exercising administrative control over the government servant proceeding on transfer, which is the old office rather than the new one. Note 2 places the cost on the other side: the joining-time pay is paid for by the new administrative authority where the government servant joins on transfer.

One category draws joining time without joining-time pay. Department of Personnel and Training Office Memorandum No. 21011/08/2013-Estt.(AL) dated 25 March 2013 states that a temporary central government employee with less than three years of regular continuous service, though entitled to joining time, is not entitled to joining-time pay. That clarification cited Rule 4(4) as it stood in 2013, before G.S.R. 229(E) dated 27 March 2015 substituted the sub-rule with the competitive-examination provision, so the rule reference in the 2013 Office Memorandum no longer matches the current text of Rule 4(4).

Unutilised joining time credited as earned leave

Unutilised joining time is converted into earned leave rather than lost. Rule 6(1), as substituted by G.S.R. 229(E) dated 27 March 2015, no longer states the mechanism itself: it provides that the period of unutilised joining time is regulated in terms of sub-clause (ii) of clause (a) of sub-rule (1) of Rule 26 of the CCS (Leave) Rules, 1972. Anyone reading only the Joining Time Rules after 2015 will find a cross-reference and no figures.

Rule 26(1)(a)(ii) of the Leave Rules, inserted by G.S.R. 198 through Department of Personnel and Training Notification No. 13012/12/86-Estt.(L) dated 25 March 1989, supplies the substance. It applies in two situations: where the government servant is ordered to join the new post at a new place of posting without availing the full joining time to which the servant is entitled, and where the servant proceeds alone to the new place of posting, joins the post without availing the full joining time, and takes the family later within the period permissible for claiming travelling allowance for the family. In either case the number of days of joining time admissible under Rule 5(4) of the CCS (Joining Time) Rules, 1979, subject to a maximum of 15 days and reduced by the number of days actually availed, is credited to the leave account as earned leave.

The proviso caps the result. The earned leave at credit together with the unavailed joining time allowed to be so credited may not exceed 300 days. An employee already sitting near the earned leave accumulation ceiling gains nothing from reporting early, because the credit is squeezed out by the cap rather than carried in addition to it. The 15-day maximum is a separate limit that applies even where the Rule 5(4) entitlement is 15 days plus the two additional days under Note 2.

The one-day joining time under Rule 5(3), for a move within the same station or without a change of residence, is not credited if it is not availed. It falls outside the Rule 26(1)(a)(ii) machinery, which is keyed to the joining time admissible under Rule 5(4).

Combining joining time with leave

Rule 6(2) allows joining time to be combined with vacation or with regular leave of any kind or duration, except casual leave. The exception is absolute: an employee cannot tag casual leave onto joining time to widen the gap between two postings, because casual leave is a concession outside the CCS (Leave) Rules, 1972 rather than a recognised form of leave.

The permission is otherwise wide. Any kind of regular leave qualifies, and no limit of duration is imposed by the sub-rule, so earned leave, half pay leave, commuted leave and extraordinary leave may all be prefixed or suffixed to the joining time. An employee who wants a longer break at the point of transfer applies for regular leave and takes it alongside the joining time.

Revised transfer orders received in transit

Rule 6(3), as substituted by G.S.R. 229(E) dated 27 March 2015, deals with the employee whose destination changes mid-journey. Where a government servant in transit on transfer is directed to proceed to a place different from the one indicated in the initial transfer orders, the servant is entitled to the joining time already availed up to the date of receipt of the revised orders, plus a fresh spell of full joining time from the date following the date of receipt of the revised orders.

The fresh spell is measured from where the employee is, not from where the employee started. Rule 6(3) provides that the fresh spell of joining time in such cases is calculated from the place at which the revised orders were received, as if the servant were transferred from that place. An employee who has travelled 1,500 km and is redirected to a station 400 km away draws the 10-day slab on the remaining leg, not the 12-day slab that the original headquarters would have supported.

Overstaying the joining time

Overstayal is governed by Fundamental Rule 108, not by the CCS (Joining Time) Rules, 1979. Rule 108 provides that a government servant who does not join the post within the joining time is entitled to no pay or leave salary after the end of the joining time, and that wilful absence from duty after the expiry of joining time may be treated as misbehaviour for the purpose of Fundamental Rule 15.

The reference to Rule 15 has a specific effect. Fundamental Rule 15(a) empowers the President to transfer a government servant from one post to another, and bars a transfer or officiating appointment to a post carrying less pay than the post on which the servant holds a lien, except on two grounds set out in Rule 15(a)(1) and 15(a)(2): inefficiency or misbehaviour, and the servant’s written request. Treating wilful absence beyond the joining time as misbehaviour opens the first of those grounds, so the employee may be posted to a lower-paid post without the protection Rule 15 otherwise gives.

Two further Fundamental Rules bear on the same period. Rule 17(1) provides that an officer draws the pay and allowances of a post from the date of assuming its duties and ceases to draw them on ceasing to discharge them, with a proviso that an officer absent from duty without any authority is not entitled to any pay and allowances during the absence. Rule 17-A treats unauthorised absence by an individual employee, or desertion of the post, as causing an interruption or break in service for the purposes of leave travel concession, quasi-permanency and eligibility to appear in departmental examinations, unless the appointing authority decides otherwise.

Rule 8 of the CCS (Joining Time) Rules, 1979 is headed “Miscellaneous” and does something else entirely. It allows a ministry or department satisfied that the operation of any of the Rules causes undue hardship in a particular case to dispense with or relax the requirement of that rule, for reasons recorded in writing, to the extent and subject to the exceptions and conditions it considers necessary to deal with the case in a just and equitable manner, provided that no such order is made except with the concurrence of the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms. An employee who cannot report within the joining time for a reason the Rules do not cover applies for extension under Rule 5(5) or for relaxation under Rule 8, rather than overstaying.

Joining time, increments and qualifying service

Joining time counts for increment. Fundamental Rule 26(e) provides that joining time counts for increment in the time-scale applicable to the post on which the government servant holds a lien, or would hold a lien had the lien not been suspended, as well as in the time-scale applicable to the post the pay of which is drawn during the period, where the joining time falls under clause (a) or clause (c) of Rule 105. Where it falls under clause (b) of Rule 105, it counts in the time-scale of the post or posts on which the last day of leave before the joining time counts for increment. The period does not push the annual increment date back.

Joining time counts for pension as well. Rule 27(1) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 states the general position that an interruption in service entails forfeiture of past service, and then lists the exceptions, of which joining time on transfer from one post to another is one. The same Rules use permissible joining time as a measure elsewhere: Rule 22(3) counts an interruption caused by the training post and the regular appointment being at different stations up to the joining time permissible on transfer, and Rule 26(4) does the same for the interruption between two appointments on technical resignation. Anything beyond the permissible joining time has to be regularised by leave due or extraordinary leave.

Fundamental Rule 108-A covers a person coming from outside government service. A person in employment other than government service, or on leave granted from such employment, who is appointed to a post under the Central Government in the interest of Government may, at the discretion of that Government, be treated as on joining time while preparing for and making the journey to join the post, and again on reversion to the original employment. The pay for that period is the pay or leave salary paid by the private employer before the appointment, or the pay of the government post, whichever is less.

Joining time and the money paid on transfer

Joining time and the transfer travelling allowance are separate entitlements decided under different instruments, and a transfer triggers both. Joining time is the period allowed for the move without loss of pay or leave, granted under the CCS (Joining Time) Rules, 1979. The transfer travelling allowance meets the cost of the move under Department of Expenditure Office Memorandum No. 19030/1/2017-E.IV dated 13 July 2017: the fare for the employee and family, the transport of personal effects, and the composite transfer grant of 80% of the last month’s basic pay under paragraph 3(ii)(a) of that Office Memorandum, raised to 100% for the island territories.

The public-interest test is the link between them. A transfer in the public interest carries joining time under Rule 4(1) and the transfer travelling allowance under the 2017 Office Memorandum. A transfer on the employee’s own request carries neither, and the transit period is regularised by leave under Office Memorandum No. 19011/33/81-Allowances dated 29 January 1983.

The take-home salary of an employee on transfer in the public interest is unaffected by the joining time itself, because Rule 7 keeps the employee on duty and on pay throughout. What changes is the allowance base after reporting: house rent allowance shifts to the classification of the new city, and transport allowance is drawn at the rate applicable to the new station, both from the date of joining rather than from the date of relinquishing charge.

What the 2015 amendment changed

G.S.R. 229(E) dated 27 March 2015 took effect on 27 March 2015 and is the most recent substantive change to the Rules. It substituted four provisions and inserted two notes.

The consolidated instructions issued by the Department of Personnel and Training on 12 September 2022 restate the position after that amendment and list the underlying instruments: Notification No. G.S.R. 695 dated 8 May 1979, Office Memorandum No. 21011/12/79-Allowances dated 16 November 1979, Office Memorandum No. 19011/30/81-Allowances dated 13 October 1981, Office Memorandum No. 19011/33/81-Allowances dated 29 January 1983, and Notification No. G.S.R. 229(E) dated 27 March 2015. Rule 9 leaves any doubt on interpretation to be referred to the Department of Personnel and Training.

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External references

• Department of Personnel and Training
• DoPT establishment orders
• DoPT consolidated instructions on the CCS (Joining Time) Rules, 1979
• Compilation of the Fundamental Rules and Supplementary Rules
• DoPT frequently asked questions on allowances and joining time, 25 March 2013
• Department of Expenditure

References

1. Central Civil Services (Joining Time) Rules, 1979, notified by the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms as Notification No. 21011/2/79-Allowances dated 8 May 1979 under the proviso to Article 309 and clause (5) of Article 148 of the Constitution, published in the Gazette of India of 19 May 1979 as G.S.R. 695: Rules 1 (application), 2 (deputation and foreign service), 3 (definitions), 4 (grant of joining time), 5 (commencement, schedule and extension), 6 (unutilised joining time, combination with leave, revised orders), 7 (joining-time pay), 8 (relaxation), 9 (interpretation) and 10 (repeal).
2. Notification No. 19011/12/86-Estt.(Allow.) dated 10 March 1989, issued as G.S.R. 197 (substitution of Rule 6).
3. Notification No. G.S.R. 229(E) dated 27 March 2015, effective 27 March 2015 (substitution of Rules 4(4), 5(4) Notes 1 and 2, 6(1) and 6(3), and insertion of Notes 1 and 2 under Rule 7).
4. Notification No. 19011/2/82-Allowances dated 27 December 1982 (Comptroller and Auditor General to exercise the powers of a Department for the Indian Audit and Accounts Department).
5. Department of Personnel and Training, consolidated instructions on the Central Civil Services (Joining Time) Rules, 1979, updated 12 September 2022.
6. Department of Personnel and Training Office Memorandum No. 21011/08/2013-Estt.(AL) dated 25 March 2013 (frequently asked questions on the Joining Time Rules, including joining-time pay for temporary employees with less than three years of regular continuous service).
7. Office Memorandum No. 19011/33/81-Allowances dated 29 January 1983 (regularisation of the intervening period on transfer at the employee’s own request).
8. Office Memorandum No. 21011/12/79-Allowances dated 16 November 1979 and Office Memorandum No. 19011/30/81-Allowances dated 13 October 1981, superseded by Office Memorandum No. 19011/30/81-Estt.(Allowances) dated 17 September 1984 (journeys to and from remote localities).
9. Ministry of Home Affairs Office Memorandum No. 1/6/67-CS.III dated 7 July 1967 (joining time and transfer travelling allowance under the Scheme Regulating Redeployment of Surplus Staff).
10. Fundamental Rules 9(10), 15(a), 17, 17-A, 26(e), 108 and 108-A.
11. Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972, Rule 26(1)(a)(ii), inserted by G.S.R. 198 through Department of Personnel and Training Notification No. 13012/12/86-Estt.(L) dated 25 March 1989, with the 300-day proviso to Rule 26(1)(b).
12. Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021, Rules 22(3), 26(4) and 27(1).
13. Department of Expenditure Office Memorandum No. 19030/1/2017-E.IV dated 13 July 2017 (travelling allowance on transfer and the composite transfer grant, cited for the cross-reference).