thiruvananthapuram government has said that officers including the ias and ips who are on long leaves deputations or sabbaticals should intimate their rejoining date two months in advance and not on the last day of their leave else the period between the date of joining service and issuing fresh posting orders will be treated as further leaveas per the circular issued by additional chief secretary finance rajesh kumar singh if they fail to do as told the number of days between the day on which the officer reports back on duty after the leave period and the day on which the posting orders are issued will not be treated as on duty but will be considered as leave or leave without allowance finance department had to issue the order after it found that despite repeated instructions those returning from long leaves including sabbaticals trainings deputations foreign assignments or other services were reporting about rejoining duty only after expiry of sanctioned leave or just a few days before the end of their leave this was causing a delay in issuing posting orders and these days in between were regularized as duty days even when the officers were not working earlier as per government rules officers who are reporting back to work after long leave durations had to report their rejoining date three months in advance so that by the time they join duty the government was ready with a posting order in a specific department this was later modified and the minimum period before which they should intimate the government about their rejoining date was reduced to two months when an officer reports back to duty the government will appoint him or her in the vacancy available for that rank if no vacancy is available the juniormost official will be reverted to the next lower level to accommodate the officer at the appropriate level