Mumbai: The Indian state bank has decided to maintain revised instructions regarding the joined letter for pregnant women candidates in delay.
It follows the protest from politicians, the female rights agency and general anger on social media for the provision of bank circular which limits the letter to join the candidate of women who are pregnant for three months.
Swati Maliwal, Chairperson, Delhi Commission for Women, took knowledge of Suo Moto’s report on new guidelines, issued a notification to the Chair of the Indian state bank against the December 31 circulation which said that women who were more than three months pregnant would be considered.
While not feasible and will not be given soon to join before shipping.
On Saturday, Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote to Nirmala Sitharaman and the SBI chairman asked for a guide to withdraw.
He showed that the existing guidelines submitted in 2009 allowed the appointment of candidates for up to six months of pregnancy but has now been revised.
He highlighted a broader problem from the decline in women’s participation in labor.
“Such regressive and sexist guidelines will worsen the exception of women and inequality faced by them,” he said.
In the middle of the line, the largest lender in the country said: “SBI has recently reviewed various fitness standards for recruitment in banks, including norms for pregnant women candidates.
Revision guidelines are intended to provide clarity on various health parameters where instructions are not clear or It’s been very old.
“This adds that in some parts of the media, the revision of the norm in this case has been interpreted as discriminatory against women.
“SBI is always proactive in the care and empowerment of women employees who now form around 25% of our workforce,” said the public sector player.
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