If an Executive is sanctioned leave for more than 7 days, Sanctioning Authority shall make an order for giving temporary charge to another executive for leave period. The temporary charge will be regulated as under:

1. Temporary charge should be handed over to an executive of same level, if available.

2. In case same level executive is not available, temporary charge may be held by a Superior executive.

3. In case 1 & 2 are not possible, temporary charge may be handed over to an executive one level below.

4. The incumbent executive holding the charge will exercise all the powers (Financial and administrative) by virtue of holding temporary charge of that post.

5. Ordinarily the executive holding temporary charge should not take major decisions including deciding of contracts etc. and should only deal with routine and urgent matters.

6. If considered essential, the Reporting officer may spell out the scope of duties when issuing the order for handing over of temporary charge.