Sikkim govt women employees to get childcare attendants at home to take care of newborns: CM Tamang

The Sikkim Chief Minister said that his government was aware of the concerns of the women employees as to who will look after their newborn if they decide to become mothers.

In yet another incentive to boost the fertility rate in Sikkim, Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang said that women government employees will be given childcare attendants at their homes free of cost to take care of newborns.

Addressing a function at Saramsa Garden near the State capital on Friday, Mr. Tamang said his government proposed to recruit women aged 40 years and above to depute them at the home of the women government employees to take care of the newly born children for one year.

"The low fertility rate among the local indigenous population is a matter of serious concern in Sikkim...We must do everything in our hands to reverse the process," Mr. Tamang said.

The Sikkim Chief Minister said that his government was aware of the concerns of the women employees as to who will look after their newborn if they decide to become mothers.

The decision to rope in women attendants at the home of the female government employees to take care of their newborn will address their concerns and they will be now keen to fulfil their desire for motherhood, he said.

Mr. Tamang said that women childcare attendants will be given a remuneration of ₹10,000 per month.

The proposal to provide a free of cost childcare attendant at the home of women government employees to take care of their newborn comes a week after the chief minister had announced monetary and other incentives for women belonging to indigenous communities for producing more children to boost the local population.