Delhi Government Drafts Policy to Build Breastfeeding Rooms

New Delhi: To adopt global practices, the Ministry of Women and Child Development of the Delhi government is exploring the possibility of building breastfeeding and childcare rooms in the national capital. It is also looking at ways to amend the by-laws to open the way for such rooms.

The government has informed the Delhi High Court that it has drafted a policy for building baby feeding rooms and has sought comments and suggestions from the public. The draft policy has also been shared with landowning departments for their opinions.

The government is exploring the possibility of incorporating it in the future building plans and amendments to building by-laws to implement the policy. Consultations have already held with organizations, like the Municipal Corporations of New Delhi, South Delhi, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), the Department of Women & Child, and the Urban Development Department.

The move to build baby-feeding rooms is aimed at creating the environment that supports, protects and enables the mother to nurse her child in a safe, comfortable and hygienic place.

“The purpose is to formulate guidelines for the public utility departments and others for setting up facilities for nursing mothers and her child,” the government said in an affidavit to the Delhi High Court in a case filed by a nine-month-old Avyaan through his mother Neha Rastogi and advocate Animesh Rastogi, seeking the court’s intervention for providing adequate facilities to lactating mothers and their children. (IANS)

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