- The provision and privilege of child care leave will be available only for those male employees who happen to be ‘single male parent’: Jitendra Singh
- He added that it has been possible to make several out-of-box decisions in the DoPT over the last six years
Male government employees raising a child alone are now entitled to child care leave (CCL), Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Monday. The provision and privilege of CCL will be available only for those male employees who happen to be “single male parent”, which may include male employees who are widowers or divorcees or even unmarried and may, therefore, be expected to take up the responsibility of child care as a single-handed parent, said Singh, who is the Minister of State (Personnel).
Jitendra Singh said the orders regarding this had been issued quite some time back but somehow did not receive enough circulation in the public.
The Union Minister also informed that an employee on Child Care Leave may now leave the head quarter with the prior approval of Competent Authority.
Source: livemint
