The act presently entitles women to 12 weeks of paid maternity leave, and the proposal was to extend it to 26 weeks. Well, looks like the Union Cabinet may soon be giving its go-ahead to the proposal.

They can continue to stay on maternity leave until six months,” he said. “This was our understanding while endorsing the proposal and RCSC was of the view it should apply retrospective.” But in RCSC’s ...