Directorate of Estates to be informed forthwith regarding retirement/death of occupants of quarters

(3) Directorate of Estates to be informed forthwith regarding retirement/death of occupants of quarters. - As per present practice, all the Ministries/Departments are required to intimate this Directorate about the transfer/retirement/death of a Government servant working under their administrative control to enable this Directorate to cancel the quarter, if any, in the name of that Government servant. However, it has been observed that this practice is not being followed scrupulously by most of the Ministries/Departments with the result that the Government servants who are transferred out of Delhi or retired, continue to retain Government accommodation unauthorisedly for 1/30/2019 CHAPTER VIII http://persmin.nic.in/pension/rules/pencomp8.htm#Preparation%20of%20list%20of%20Government%20servants%20due%20for%20retirement 6/58 considerably long periods. The Comptroller and Auditor-General in his report ending 31st March, 1989, have taken a serious view of the situation and have pointed out 734 such cases where there was delay in cancellation of quarters due to retirement/transfer/death of the Government servant. It is, therefore, impressed upon all the Ministries/Departments once again to intimate this Directorate about the transfer of Government servants from one office to another or to outstation and about retirement or death of the Government servant immediately on the occurrence of such events to enable this Directorate to take further necessary action in respect of Government accommodation, if any, allotted to that Government servant. [G.I., Dir. of Estates, O.M. No. 23011/4/89/Pol. III, dated the 28th December, 1990.]