Guarantee ladies specialists not denied maternity leave: Maneka Gandhi to Arvind Kejriwal

New Delhi: Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has encouraged Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to guarantee that specialists in government healing facilities are not denied maternity clear out.

The report guaranteed this was a typical practice in healing facilities like Baba Saheb Ambedkar, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Govind Ballabh Pant and Lok Nayak doctor's facilities, and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) clinic Hindu Rao.

"It is vital for us in the legislature to guarantee that the working conditions are reasonable and also empowering for working ladies. For this, amplified maternity leave is one of the elements.

"I, hence, ask for you to guarantee that ladies specialists are not denied these advantages under any conditions," Gandhi said.

Her letter said she has been educated that not quite recently transitory inhabitant specialists but rather consistent specialists are likewise denied maternity benefits.

The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016, go by Parliament a month ago, expands paid maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks and is relevant to all associations with at least 10 representatives.

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Finance Minister will be approached for more funds: Maneka

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said in Lok Sabha that there has been 50 per cent cut in the budget for Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and other areas of her Ministry in the 2015-16 budget.

"The budget cut in the Ministry is like any other areas in the government. I and the Health Minister will meet the Finance Minister soon after the Parliament session is over and request him to enhance our budgetary allocation," she cited during question.

As Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was sitting in the House, opposition members demanded that he should make a statement on the budget cut of an important ministry which deals with welfare of children and women.

Gandhi sought ICDS scheme provides an integrated package of six services comprising of supplementary nutrition, pre-school non-formal education, nutrition and health education, immunisation, health check up and referral services.

However, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan did not pay any heed to the demand of the opposition members.

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Atrocities against women on the rise: Government in Rajya Sabha

In 2011, cases of atrocities reported against women were 2,28,650, going up to 2,44,270 in 2012 and 3,09,546 in 2013, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said in a written reply, citing National Crime Records Bureau data.

"...the figures shows an increasing trend (of crime against women)," she said.

To a related question on plans to build residential hostels for working women who in particular are victims of such atrocities, the Minister informed the House that her Ministry was financially supporting a scheme for construction and running of hostel in rented premises for the working women who may be single, widowed, divorced or separated or married.
  
Since the inception of the programme in 1972-73, 916 hostels have been sanctioned under the scheme across the country, she said.

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