Maternity leave for parents of child born through surrogacy
- The Centre has notified amended rules to allow women government employees to take 180 days of maternity leave in case they have children through surrogacy.
- The government has also allowed the “commissioning mother” (the intending mother of the child born through surrogacy) childcare leave and the “commissioning father” paternity leave of 15 days, read the changes made in the Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972.
- The commissioning mother with less than two surviving children may be granted child care leave, reads the Central Civil Services (Leave) (Amendment) Rules, 2024.
- Existing rules allow “a female government servant and single male government servant” child care leave for a maximum period of 730 days during entire service.
- The “surrogate mother” shall mean the woman who bears the child on behalf of the commissioning mother.
- “commissioning father” would mean the intending father of the child born through surrogacy, the Personnel Ministry clarified in the amended rules.
