Women in Government Service - Recommendations of Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee
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.
