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more-inThe All India Council for Technical Education’s (AICTE) circular on maternity leave benefits for its women employees is honoured more in the breach, say teachers. For the second child, however, she was given just two-and- a-half months’ leave. Karthik, founder of All India Private College Employees’ Union, and N.
Pasupathi, general secretary of Association of University Teachers, say women are treated shabbily in self-financing institutions. Women teachers also complain of arbitrary promotions and say their pension funds and gratuity are delayed. The college also told her to register for a master’s degree but she was terminated within a year of joining the course..