{"id":4715,"date":"2019-08-14T09:13:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T09:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=4715"},"modified":"2019-08-14T09:13:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T09:13:37","slug":"rajnath-singh-has-approved-extending-benefits-of-child-care-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/rajnath-singh-has-approved-extending-benefits-of-child-care-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajnath Singh has approved extending benefits of child care leave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rajnath Singh has approved extending benefits of child care leave to single male service personnel, the defence ministry. The decision is in sync with an order by Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). The minister has also given his nod for giving certain relaxation in child care leave (CCL) provisions in case of women officers in defence forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At present, CCL is granted only to women officers in defence\nforces. Recently, DoPT has made certain amendments to allow CCL to civilian\nemployees, whereby the CCL granted to woman employees till now has been\nextended to single male government servants also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The age limit of 22 years prescribed earlier in the\ncase of a child with 40 per cent disability has been removed for the purpose of\navailing CCL. Further, the minimum period of CCL that can be availed at a time\nhas been reduced to 05 days instead of 15 days,&#8221; the defence ministry\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said a proposal to extend similar benefits to defence\npersonnel has been approved by Singh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this, single male service personnel will be able to\navail the benefit of CCL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Single male service personnel and woman officers of defence\nforces will also be able to avail CCL in respect of child with 40 per cent\ndisability without any restriction of age limit for the child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, the minimum period of CCL that can be availed in\neach spell has been reduced to five days from the earlier limit of 15 days,\nofficials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajnath Singh has approved extending benefits of child care leave to single male service personnel, the defence ministry. The decision is in sync with an order by Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). The minister has also given his nod for giving certain relaxation in child care leave (CCL) provisions in case of women officers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[440],"class_list":["post-4715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-child-care-leave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4717,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions\/4717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}