Maternity Leave and Pension
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Maternity Leave and Pension
21 MAR 2018
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
