GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER, PANCHAYAT RAJ & RURAL DEVELOPMENT PVS ICON BUILDING, TADEPALLI, GUNTUR DISTRICT
Memo No. 1353660 ICPR/Elections/2021 Date:20-02-2021
Sub:- Elections -Ordinary Elections to Gram Panchayats – Sanction of Special Casual leave on the next day of polling/counting to polling personnel who stay back for late due to delay in counting – Instructions – Reg.
Ref:- Memo No. 1351296/E&R/30/2021 PR & RD (E&R) Department dt. 20.02.2021
Attention of all the Collectors & District Election Authorities in the State is invited to the reference cited.
Government vide G.O. Ms. No. 119 GA(Elecs.B) Dept dt. 25.04.2014 have directed all the leave sanctioning authorities, to grant Special Casual Leave on the next day of poll to their staff members, whose services have been utilized as Presiding Officers and Assistant Presiding Officers during the General Elections/Bye Elections to the House of People and Andhra Pradesh Legislature on production of a leave letter together with the Election Duty certificate issued by the concerned Returning Officer at reception centre for the said purpose.
In the reference cited above, the Government have authorized the Commissioner, PR&RD, AP to issue instructions to the concerned, to extend the provisions of Special Casual Leave which contained in the G.O. Ms. No. 119 GA(Elecs.B) Dept dt. 25.04.2014 to all the polling personnel who have to stay back for longer hours till date in night due to delay in counting on the next day of polling during elections to local bodies.
Therefore, all the Collectors and District Election Authorities in the State are requested to take necessary action for extending the provisions of Special Casual Leave to the polling personnel as per the instructions issued in G.O. Ms. No. 119 GA(Elecs.B) Dept dt. 25.04.2014.