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At 12:29 PM 16-10-09, you wrote:
SBI dumps norm denying posting, promotion to pregnant women
C. Gouridasan Nair
Pregnancy up to six months no longer a bar
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Discriminatory norm has been in force for three decades
Victory for women's groups, staff union
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Women across the country could be said to have
scaled yet another obstacle to their relentless quest for equality
of opportunity with the State Bank of India (SBI), bowing to public
opinion, dumping a discriminatory norm that denied immediate posting
and promotions to pregnant women.
The SBI has issued instructions (Letter No. CDO/IR/SPL/289 dated
16.09.2009) to its local head offices across the country to the
effect that pregnancy should no longer be treated as a disability
for immediate appointment or promotion. The directive, applicable to
its associate banks as well, has probably come as a result of a
public outcry from women's organisations in Kerala, a strongly
worded letter to the Prime Minister from Chief Minister V.S.
Achuthanandan and efforts by the State Banks Staff Union (SBSU).
Under the norm, in effect for over three decades, the SBI was
insisting on women candidates and serving women undergoing medical
examination at the time of recruitment/ promotion to determine
whether they were pregnant and submitting a declaration giving
details of their menstrual cycle so as to defer posting/promotion
during pregnancy. Women candidates were also required to declare
their menstrual history and give an undertaking on any evidence of
pregnancy and history of disease of the uterus, cervix, ovaries or breasts.
No personal details
The bank has now decided to do without such a declaration of
personal details and to give posting to a woman up to the sixth
month of pregnancy provided she furnishes a certificate from a
specialist gynaecologist stating that her taking up bank employment
at that stage is in no way likely to interfere with her pregnancy or
the normal development of the fetus or cause miscarriage or
otherwise adversely affect her health.
Rajesh Asudani
Assistant General Manager (PPS),
Reserve Bank of India
Nagpur
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O: 0712 2806676
Res: 0712 2591349
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John Milton
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