An interesting data
collected from the reply of Minister Dr.Jitendra Singh in Parliament
that the percentage of women in the Central Government services and
their age limit for entry.
Details of percentage of
women in Government service over the years, as per the Census of
Central Government Employees, 2012, released by Directorate General
Employment & Training are given below in the table.
In order to encourage the women to join Government service, they are provided some special facilities as under:
(i) maternity leave (ii)
child care leave (iii) child adoption leave (iv) special allowance to
women with disability (v) provision of crèche facility (vi) posting of
husband and wife at the same station (vii) special priority in allotment
of residential accommodation (viii) provision for protection of women
from acts of sexual harassment (ix) age relaxation for appointment to
widows, divorced woman and woman judicially separated from their
husbands and who are not remarried (x) special dispensation for woman
officers of All India Services of North East cadre (xi) change of Cadre
in case of marriage of All India Service Officer and (xii) exemption
from payment of fee for examinations conducted by the Union Public
Service Commission and Staff Selection Commission.
Also, as per the
recommendations of the 62nd Department Related Parliamentary Standing
Committee, publicity to encourage women to prefer/ join Government.
There is a provision for
age relaxation for appointment in Government service for Widows,
divorced Women and Women judicially separated from husbands and not re-
married, upto 35 years for posts of Group C filled through Staff
Selection Commission/ Employment Exchange (upto 40 years for members of
Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes).
WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT OVER THE YEARS
Year
|
Total No. of employees
(in lakhs) |
No. of Women employees
(in lakhs) |
Percentage
|
1991
|
38.13
|
2.88
|
7.58
|
2001
|
38.76
|
2.91
|
7.53
|
2009
|
30.99
|
3.11
|
10.04
|