Section 70 in Tamil Nadu Educational Inspection Code
70. Use of service postage stamps.
- Service postage stamps shall not be used by the Inspecting Officers for communications which are not strictly in the interest of the public or general service. All applications for leave should be submitted by officers in letters post paid but any such application forwarded officially by superior officers should be treated like any other official communication.Letters and parcels sent by Inspecting Officers in their official capacity which relate nevertheless to the private interest and concerns of the individuals addressed should be endorsed "service bearing". Under this head come replies sent to petitions, applications for appointments, request for transfers, inquiries about title to leave, etc., as well as any other communications of a like kind which one officer may make to other officers relating to private interests of the addressee. Inspecting Officers are not entitled to send communications regarding their leave pay, transfer, leave allowance, fund subscription and analogous matters at the expense of the State as such communications are private and official.All letters sent by Inspecting Officers in their official capacity, in reply to communications of any kind received from private individuals, or associations shall be despatched "service paid". When private stamps accompany communications from private individuals, they shall be used for replies. With a view to ensuring that private postage stamps received for replies are used for that purpose, the officers shall enter the words "stamps for reply" at the head of every communications in which such stamps are enclosed. Separate accounts of service and private stamps should be maintained from day-to-day.Verification of service postage stamps. - The stamp account should be checked and the stamps stock verified periodically in addition to the verification undertaken by the officers at the time of preferring an indent for the same.
