Amendment to Maternity Benefits Act

In what would perhaps make it the first ever government institution to do so, the MSRTC will offer its women conductors a paid maternity leave for the full period of nine months.

The Maternity Benefit Act passed in 1961, protects the right to employment of these women during the time of their maternity and entitles them a ‘maternity benefit.’

The proposed amendment to maternity law is an example of how women's issues are finally being mainstreamed in India.