Residence

Residence.— All Government servants shall ordinarily reside, within the limits of their Headquarters Stations. Whenever any Government servant finds it necessary to live outside the prescribed Headquarters, he shall obtain specific sanction of the I-lead of Office or other Competent Authority. Permission to reside outside the headquarters will be granted only in exceptional case, each case being considered on its merits and in accordance with administrative convenience. When a Government servant living in the Headquarters Stations wants to leave the station on private business, he will have to obtain pennission from his superior officer. Note—For the purpose of this rule.—(a)Government Servants, other than Medical Officers of the Departments of Health Services, Homoeopathy, Indigenous Medicine and of Medical Colleges, residing within a radius of fifteen kilometres from their offices shall be deemed to reside within the limits of their Headquarters Stations. This limit of fifteen kilometres radius shall not, however, be applied strictly in the case of big cities and towns provided that the persons concerned reside within the limits of the Headquarters city or town. (b) Medical Officers of the Departments of Health Services, Homoeopathy, Indigenous Medicines and of Medical Colleges, residing within a radius of eight kilometres from the Hospital/Dispensary/Medical College/ Health Centre in which they are working shall be deemed to reside within the limits of their Headquarters Stations.