COMMISSIONING MOTHER ENTITLED TO MATERNITY
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Maternity Leave and Pension
Hon’ble Delhi High Court vide its judgement dated 17.07.2015
in the Writ Petition (C) No. 844/2014 – Rama Pandey vs. Union of India
&Ors., has laid down that a female employee, who is the commissioning
mother, would be entitled to apply for maternity leave. Department of Personnel
and Training, after examination of the judgement, has circulated it to all
Ministries/Departments for wide publicity vide Office Memorandum dated
29.01.2018.
In accordance with the Office Memorandum No. 1/13/09-
P&PW (E) dated 19th July, 2017, family pension would also be granted to a
divorced daughter from the date of divorce in cases where the divorce proceedings
had been filed in a competent court during the life-time of the
employee/pensioner or his/her spouse but divorce took place after their death,
subject to fulfilment of all other conditions for grant of family pension.
No centralized data regarding grant of pension/family
pension by the various Pension Disbursing authorities is maintained.
This was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel,
Public Grievances & Pensions and Prime Minister’s Office, Dr. Jitendra
Singhin a written reply to question in the Lok Sabha today.
Source: PIB (23.03.2018)
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