Pankaja munde orders setting up of rooms in offices for working mums to feed kids

Munde admitted that even though the government had announced providing for such rooms named as Hirakani rooms last year, it had just remained on paper. Five-month-old Arav with his

grandmother and father Satish Sabale Five-month-old Arav will now have a designated room to rest while his mother works in her department in Mantralaya. The young mother, who joined

government service recently, had to come down at least thrice to feed her baby beneath a staircase in Mantralaya. Minister for women and child development Pankaja Munde had personally taken

up the case and ordered setting up of separate rooms in all government offices for feeding newborns while their mothers were on job. Following the minister's instruction, Arav will now

get a separate room in the next two days in Mantralaya. Munde admitted that even though the government had announced providing for such rooms named as Hirakani rooms last year, it had just

remained on paper. Thanking the journalists who brought it to her notice, Munde immediately instructed officials from women and child development, general administration and PWD department

to make provisions for such a room. Incidentally, the mother in this case, Madhuri Gavli-Sabale, hails from drought-hit Osmanabad and has recently joined her job. Madhuri has joined as an

assistant in the home department in Mantralaya only a month ago. Her husband Satish and her grandmother accompanied her from Osmanabad since she did not know anyone in Mumbai. The family has

rented a house in Nahur. Madhuri comes to Mantralaya with her husband Satish, son Arav and her grandmother. While she works, her grandmother and husband stay back beneath the staircase and

take care of Arav. Madhuri has to come down and feed he child there. Satish said that he was happy that all such mothers and their children would now get separate rooms in government

offices.