The Chandigarh Administration has notified that maternity leave will be given to female employees who want to have child through surrogacy as well as to those female employees who would bear the child of another women.
Both the surrogate mother and commissioning mother will be entitled to maternity leave with full pay upto 180 days or 26 weeks.
This has been decided after the neighboring Punjab Government announced similar provision in the state last month.
The Administration has written a letter to all Administrative Secretaries, Head of Departments, Institutions, Boards or Corporation to ensure compliance of the order and grant maternity leave to commissioning mother and surrogate mother. Alongwith the letter, the Punjab Government’s order related to grant of maternity leave to commissioning mother and surrogate mother have been forwarded to officers concerned in UT Administration for compliance.
