A strange problem has besieged the Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) over the grant of maternity leave to two newly-appointed graduate primary teachers. The case is expected to have repercussions for all prospective women employees of the State government.
The government issued a notification for the recruitment of 15,000 graduate primary teachers in March 2022 and 13,352 were appointed recently. Of them, the case of two teachers, both posted in Haveri district, has now caught the attention of the department.
One of them, appointed to the Bisilahalli Government Model Primary School, Byadgi taluk, was delivered of her second child this October 8 and reported for service on October 27.
