Maternity Benefits to Surrogate Mothers

The Government of India considers grant of Maternity Leave to surrogate mothers on case to case basis keeping in view the totality of the circumstances of each case. Recently Maternity Leave was granted in a few cases. 

This was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Smt Vasanthi M. in the Lok Sabha today. 

Source : PIB Release, Dated 02.12.2015