BHUBANESWAR: Girl workers in govt and personal sectors in Odisha will get a day’s paid interval go away, deputy CM Pravati Parida introduced Thursday in Cuttack after an I-Day occasion. “The go away might be non-compulsory and might be taken on both the primary or second day of the menstrual cycle, relying on the lady’s desire,” stated Parida, who additionally serves as minister answerable for girls and little one growth division.
Odisha joins Bihar, which affords menstrual go away for working girls, and Kerala that launched menstrual go away for feminine college students in state universities in Jan 2023.
A nationwide push for menstrual go away was made within the final Lok Sabha by way of a personal member’s invoice proposed by Kerala Congress MP Hibi Eden, in search of three days go away for working girls.
Odisha’s initiative is a part of the 100-day work plan of CM Mohan Majhi’s govt. Majhi took oath as CM on June 12.
