‘Bengal non-govt staff to get child care leave’

Women employees of schools, colleges, universities, and urban and rural local bodies in West Bengal can now avail a “child care leave” of 730 days, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Friday. 

The scheme would also include women employees of corporations, undertakings and statutory authorities under the West Bengal government, Banerjee said at a programme in a water treatment plant of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). Earlier, women employees of only the state government were eligible for this benefit. One lakh women would benefit from the scheme, the Chief Minister said later in a post on Facebook.

At the KMC programme, Banerjee inaugurated the upgraded facility of Gardenreach water treatment plant where 155 million gallon per day (MGD) would be available now. Earlier, 135 MGD of water was produced there. Besides this 20 MGD upgradation, the Chief Minister said, there would be an addition of 30 MGD before the Durga Puja in mid-October.