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Agartala: The Tripura High Court ordered the state government to immediately grant one year of child care leave to Tapasi Roy. Roy works as a postgraduate teacher at Shankaracharya Vidyaniketan. She applied for her full entitlement of 730 days on September 2, 2025. The Education Department sat on her application for nearly a year. Her request fell under the Tripura State Civil Service Leave Rules as amended in December 2017. These rules grant female employees 730 days of leave for children under 18.
The department refused to approve the leave. They cited a 2020 notification that capped such leave at 30 days per request. Senior Advocate Purushottam Roy Barman, alongside advocates Samarjit Bhattacharjee and Kaushik Nath, represented Roy. They argued the court already killed that notification in 2024. Barman told the court, "Statutory entitlements under the Leave Rules could not be curtailed by executive orders."
Justice Biswajit Palit sided with the petitioner. He ordered the state to honor the full leave entitlement without further delay. This ruling sets a precedent for female government workers across the state. It blocks the government from using restrictive internal orders to ignore established leave laws. The court decision guarantees that future leave applications cannot be stalled by departmental friction.
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