{"id":46326,"date":"2024-09-26T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/odisha-govt-employees-can-now-avail-maternity-paternity-leave-in-case-of-surrogacy-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T17:45:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:45:02","slug":"odisha-govt-employees-can-now-avail-maternity-paternity-leave-in-case-of-surrogacy-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/odisha-govt-employees-can-now-avail-maternity-paternity-leave-in-case-of-surrogacy-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Odisha govt employees can now avail maternity, paternity leave in case of surrogacy &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"intro-text\">\n<p><span class=\"dropcap shadow\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #dd8500; border-color: #ffffff;\">O<\/span>disha government extended maternity leave and paternity leave benefits to state government employees attaining parenthood by surrogacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMaternity leave of 180 days to female Government employees and paternity leave of 15 days to male Government employees have been extended by the State Government.<\/p>\n<p>Proposal for grant of maternity and paternity leave to State Government employees in case of attainment of parenthood by surrogacy has been under active consideration of State Government for some time past,\u201d read an official Memorandum of Finance Department on Thursday (Sept 26).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment of India, have extended maternity leave and paternity leave benefits to Central Government employees attaining parenthood by surrogacy. In view of this, the State Government extended maternity leave and paternity leave benefits to State Government employees, attaining parenthood by surrogacy,\u201d the Memo added.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>Key Conditions:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A State Government female employee, having less than two surviving children, who becomes a \u2018Surrogate Mother\u2019 shall be eligible for maternity leave of 180 days. (\u2018Surrogate Mother\u2019 means a woman who agrees to bear a child (who is genetically related to the intending couple or intending woman) through, surrogacy from the implantation of embryo in her womb and fulfils the conditions as provided in sub-clause (b) of the clause (iii) of Section 4 of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021.)<\/li>\n<li>A State Government female employee, having less than two surviving children, who becomes a \u2018Commissioning Mother\u2019 shall be eligible for maternity leave of 180 days. (\u2018Commissioning mother\u2019 means a biological mother who uses her egg to create an embryo implanted in any other women.)<\/li>\n<li>A State Government male employee, having less than two surviving children, who becomes a \u2018Commissioning Father\u2019 shall be eligible for paternity leave of 15 days within the period of 6 months from the date of delivery of the child. (\u2018Commissioning Father\u2019 means biological father of the child born through surrogacy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Note-a:<\/strong> If both the Surrogate Mother and the Commissioning Mother, as mentioned above, are State Government employees, both will be eligible for 180 days of maternity leave each.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note-b:<\/strong> Agreement on surrogacy made between Surrogate mother and Commissioning parents along with supporting medical documents from Registered Doctors\/Hospitals shall be produced for claiming maternity\/paternity leave. This shall come into effect from the date of issue of this Office Memorandum.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Continue Reading<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Odisha government extended maternity leave and paternity leave benefits to state government employees attaining parenthood by surrogacy. \u201cMaternity leave of 180 days to female Government employees and paternity leave of 15 days to male Government employees have been extended by the State Government. Proposal for grant of maternity and paternity leave to State Government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Chikiti-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46328,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46326\/revisions\/46328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}