Women urge government to provide maternity benefits for more than two children

Home Minister V. Anitha, Minister for Handlooms and Textiles S. Savitha and Commissioner Rajasher Babu and women at the International Women’s Day Celebrations oraganised by the police department in Vijayawada on Friday. Photo:
| Photo Credit: G.N. RAO

Women police officers who participated in a panel discussion appealed to the government to provide benefits for mothers for more than two deliveries.

When a woman constable, Shruthi, said that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was asking to have more than two children, but the government was giving maternity benefits for only two deliveries, Home Minister Vangalapudi Anitha said the issue would be taken to the notice of the Chief Minister immediately.

Ms. Anitha, along with Handlooms and Textiles Minister S. Savitha, AIDWA State Secretary D. Ramadevi and officers participated in the panel discussion on ‘Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in Leadership, Challenges and Wayforward’, organised by NTR Police, as part of the International Women’s Day, here on Friday.

The speakers said that there was a change in upbringing and discrimination between male and female was seen clearly in the families. Women were facing challenges right from the school stage, they said.

Participants discussed on the challenges and the problems being faced by the women in and outside the home, and on how to overcome them.

Police Commissioner S.V. Rajashekar Babu, DCPs Gowthami Sali, A.B.T.S. Udaya Rani and K.G.V. Saritha, Efftronics director Dasari Spoorthi, AIG (Law and Order) Siddharth Kaushal, SP Shareen Begum, Vasavya Mahila Mandali president Chennupati Keerthi and others participated.