A Government servant is eligible to receive without special permission and except as otherwise provided by a general or special order of the Governor, to retain :—
(a) the premium awarded for an essay or plan in public competitions;
(b) any reward offered for the arrest of a criminal or for information or special service in connection with the Administration of Justice ;
(c) any reward payable in accordance with the provisions of any Act or Regulation or Rules framed thereunder ;
(d) any reward sanctioned for services in connection with the administrative of the customs and excise laws ; and
(e) any fees payable to a Government servant for duties which he is required to perform in his official capacity under any special or local law or by order of the Government.
Note 1 : —All Police Officers, other than gazetted officers, are permitted to accept—
(a) special rewards offered by the Government ;
(b) special rewards offered by private persons, subject to sanction by the Inspector-General of Police as to whether the reward should go to the individuals concerned or to a Police Fund, or partly to each ;
(c) to (e) [ Not Printed ].
Sub-Inspectors of Police and Sergeants are permitted to accept money rewards on recognition of the work of special merit. Except as provided above, officers in the Police Department other than Head Constables and Constables shall not receive without the permission of the Government any reward or fee of the kind referred to in clauses (b) to (d) of the rule.
Note 2 :—(1) All Government Officers, as well as Ministers appointed as Government Directors of the Companies, Corporations or Boards will be eligible to receive in the first instance, the full amount of sitting fees payable to them under the rules of the Companies etc., concerned.
(2) Ministers in all cases and the Government Officers in the following cases shall credit to Government in full, the fees received by them :
(a) when the Officer is on deputation to the concerned Company etc., as its Managing or Operative Director ;
(b) when the Government pays for the whole time services of the Officers, Company, etc., having been formed purely for legal or administrative purposes, wholly consisting of Government officials (e.g., the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board).
(3) In all other cases, the Government Directors (other than a Minister) may retain, out of the fees received by them, a sum of Rupees twenty five or fifty for each meeting attended by them, according as the meeting is held within the State or outside the State as the case may be, and shall credit the balance, if any to the Government under intimation to the Accountant-General.
(4) It is not necessary for a Government Director unless he himself so desires, to remit into Government Treasury, the sitting fees creditable to Government, immediately on receipt of such fees. It would suffice if such remittances are made into Government Treasury, once in a month, but before the 5th of the month following that to which the remittance relates.
[(5) The Accountant-General will verify the intimations of payments of sitting fees of Government Directors received from the companies, etc., with the monthly remittances into the Treasury made by the Government Directors concerned and bring any discrepancy to the notice of such Government Directors and their superior officers.]
[G.O.Ms.No. 2296, Finance, Dt. 3-8-1960]