General Knowledge Questions on Indian Culture & Freedom struggle 1.

 STAFF RULINGS – 79. LEAVE TRAVEL CONCESSION

217. What are all the conditions to be observed for declaring home town?

 In normal parlance hometown is a place where the government servant is born. However it may not be applicable to most of the officials as many would have shifted to other places from the place of their birth due to various reasons. The following guidelines provided by the Govt which are not exhaustive could be useful for deciding the home town. However the decision of the Controlling Officer shall be final in accepting the hometowns.

• The place declared by Government servant is the one which requires his physical presence at intervals for discharging various domestic and social obligations, and if so, whether after his entry into service, the Government servant had been visiting that place frequently.

• The Government servant owns residential property in that place or whether he is a member of a joint family having such property there.

• His near relations are resident in that place.

• Prior to his entry into Government service, the Government servant had been living there for some years.

• Where the Government servant or the family of which he is a member owns a residential or landed property in more than one place, it is left to the Government servant to make a choice giving reasons for the same.

218. Can any official change his Home Town subsequently after the first declaration?

 The hometown once declared and accepted by the controlling officer shall be treated as final. In exceptional circumstances, the Head of the Department/the Administrative Ministry, may authorize a change in such declaration provided that such a change shall not be made more than once during the service of a Government servant.

219. Whether the Home town of a female Government servant on marriage changes automatically?

No. There is no rule contemplating automatic change of Home Town of female Government servant on their marriage. Further it is not mandatory that the wife should choose the home town of the husband as her own.