Congress preparing to bring religion based reservation through backdoor: Rajnath Singh
Singh said that the armed forces could also come under its purview, which will affect the country's integrity and unity.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved the extension of benefits of the Child Care Leave (CCL) to single male service personnel and certain relaxations of CCL provisions in the case of woman officers of defence forces in line with a recent order of the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) extending similar benefits to civilian employees.
With this, single male service personnel will be able to avail the benefit of CCL. Single male service personnel and woman officers of defence forces will also be able to avail CCL in respect of a child with 40 per cent disability without any restriction on age limit. Further, the minimum period of CCL that can be availed in each spell has been reduced to five days from the earlier limit of 15 days, an official release said.
Presently, CCL is being granted to women officers in defence forces. Recently, the DoPT made certain amendments for grant of CCL to civilian employees, whereby the CCL granted to women employees till now has been extended to single male government servants also.
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The age limit of 22 years prescribed earlier in the case of a child with 40 per cent disability has been removed for the purpose of availing CCL.
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