Female, single male government employees to get 730 days child care leave: Centre in Lok Sabha

They are eligible for a maximum period of seven hundred and thirty days during the entire service for taking care of...

Digital Desk: Female and single male government employees are eligible for 730 days of childcare leave, Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said today.

"Female government servants and single male government servants appointed to civil services and posts-old in connection with Union affairs are eligible for child care leave (CCL) under Rule 43-C of the Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972 for a maximum period of seven hundred and thirty days during the entire service for taking care of two eldest surviving children up to the age of 18 years and no age limit in case of a differently-abled child," he said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.

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Source: NDTV