Women's Being Strong.

Coinciding with the International Women's Day, Uttarakhand government on Tuesday announced a biyearly child care leave of absence for state government women employees.

While giving birth a pitch after ending four twelvemonths in federal agency, Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank sounded out, "We have made up one's mind to give two-years child care leave alone to womanhoods employees of state government so that they could raise their children without any difficulty." .

The government has also designed to open up a adult females varsity in the state, he said.


Prizing the Emergency Management and Research Institute ambulance service, Nishank enounced, closely 82,000 adult females were supplied timely medical care and a sum of 2,167 children were given birth in locomoting ambulances.

Nishank overly gave away bank checks worth Rs 25,000 each to two widow women of armymen.

Mentioning to the recently-launched Atal Khadyanna Yojna, Nishank said apart from BPL kinsfolks 10 kg of pale yellow and 10 kg of rice at the charge per unit of Rs 4 per kilo and Rs 6 per kg right ascension.