Special leave rules allow discretionary grant with medical exception; quarantine absence can be treated as leave on employee request.

Special leave on private affairs permits an employee, during full service, to be granted up to 360 days when ordinary leave is not admissible, with an exception for prolonged treatment where the employee has no ordinary or sick leave and is otherwise ineligible. Absence due to quarantine may be treated, at the employee's request, as ordinary, sick or special leave for up to 90 days if such classification is permissible, and special leave under this quarantine provision may be availed even if ordinary leave is admissible.

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