Women in Government Service
In order to encourage the women to join Government
service, they are provided some special facilities as maternity leave, child
care leave, child adoption leave, special allowance to women with disability,
provision of crèche facility, posting of husband and wife at the same station,
special priority in allotment of residential accommodation, provision for
protection of women from acts of sexual harassment, age relaxation for
appointment to widows, divorced woman and woman judicially separated from their
husbands and who are not remarried, special dispensation for woman officers of
All India Services of North East cadre, change of Cadre in case of marriage of
All India Service Officer and exemption from payment of fee for examinations
conducted by the Union Public Service Commission and Staff Selection
Commission.
As per the recommendations of the 62nd Department
Related Parliamentary Standing Committee, publicity to encourage women to
prefer/join Government Service is being given. There is a provision for age
relaxation for appointment in Government service for Widows, divorced Women and
Women judicially separated from husbands and not re-married upto 35 years for
posts of Group C filled through Staff Selection Commission/Employment Exchange
(upto 40 years for members of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes).
Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel,
Public Grievances and Pensions Dr. Jitendra Singh gave this information in
Rajya Sabha today in a written reply to a question by Shri T.K. Rangarajan and
Shrimati Gundu Sudharani.
