Tamil Nadu Govt employees can now avail 9 month Maternity leave

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today said maternity leave for women government employees will be increased from the present six months to nine, fulfilling her party’s electoral promise.

Unveiling healthcare initiatives worth over Rs 1,400 crore, Jayalalithaa recalled that she had increased the maternity leave to six months after she assumed office as Chief Minister in 2011 from the then previous three months.

From 1980 to 2011, women employees were entitled for only 90 days maternity leave, she said in the Assembly.

“Fulfilling our (AIADMK) electoral promise of increasing maternity leave to nine months for women government employees, I would like to announce that the maternity leave will be increased to nine months,” she



told the House in a suo motu statement.

She unveiled a slew of healthcare initiatives which include extension of ongoing schemes, procurement of diagnostic devices like PET Scan, dialysis equipment, setting up of additional infrastructure.

Jayalalithaa said cathlab facility would be set up in six hospitals at a cost of Rs 42.20 crore and dialysis equipment for 51 hospitals at a cost of Rs.5.76 crore.

Old ambulances would be replaced with new ones at a cost of Rs four crore while a PET Scan equipment will be put up at the Tamil Nadu Government Multi-Super Speciality Hospital at a cost of Rs 15 crore. She also announced over Rs 30 crore worth initiatives in promotion of Indian Medicine in the state.