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Business Today, February, 2008 by Saumya Bhattacharya

Six months back, Pabani Sengupta, 36, decided to go on maternity leave. Nothing peculiar in that except that she wanted the three-month leave for adopting a seven-month-old child. Sengupta is Manager (Financial Advisory Services), Pricewaterhouse-Coopers (PwC) India, that, incidentally, did not have any such provision in its HR policy. We were facing such a situation for the first time and it took us exactly 30 seconds to decide that this leave should be granted, says Rohit Bhasin, Executive Director, PwC.

Sengupta brought her bundle of joy Prapti home from the Missionaries of Charity in December last year. Though the company has offered to give more leave to her, she says: I don't think I will need that. My daughter is well-settled already. That is the reality of...

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