The Shiv Sena on Saturday described State Bank of India’s guidelines, which said that candidates who are three months pregnant will be considered temporarily ineligible and will be allowed to join work after four months of delivery and will be subject to cancellation. will be demanded. In a letter to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, party spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said the guidelines undermined the progress made to empower women.
He said the current guidelines, which allow appointment of candidates up to six months pregnant, provided they produce a certificate from a specialized gynecologist, were brought forward in 2009. “The newly proposed guidelines delay the process of recruitment and promotion for women. This comes at a time when the condition of India’s women workforce has worsened. Such regressive and sexist guidelines will increase the exclusion of women as well as inequality with them,” said Chaturvedi. As per the guidelines of the leading bank for recruitment, candidates who have a pregnancy of three months or more will be temporarily suspended. will be considered ineligible and they will be allowed to attend within four months of the delivery of the child, he said, adding that Sitharaman should instruct SBI to withdraw the guidelines and also ensure that such harmful policies are not brought forward. .
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