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Women employees in Odisha to get paid menstrual leave

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Women employees in Odisha to get paid menstrual leave
Women employees in Odisha to get paid menstrual leave

BHUBANESWAR: Woman employees in govt and private sectors in

Odisha

will get a day’s

paid

period leave, deputy CM Pravati Parida announced Thursday in Cuttack after an I-Day event. “The leave will be optional and can be taken on either the first or second day of the menstrual cycle, depending on the woman’s preference,” said Parida, who also serves as minister in charge of women and child development department.
Odisha joins Bihar, which offers

menstrual leave

for working women, and Kerala that introduced menstrual leave for female students in state universities in Jan 2023.

A nationwide push for menstrual leave was made in the last Lok Sabha through a private member’s bill proposed by Kerala Congress MP Hibi Eden, seeking three days leave for working women.
Odisha’s initiative is part of the 100-day work plan of CM Mohan Majhi’s govt. Majhi took oath as CM on June 12.

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