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The High Court today directed the government to take necessary steps to set up breastfeeding corners at all work places, shopping malls, airports, bus stops and railway stations across the country.
The court delivered the verdict following a writ petition filed by Advocate Ishrat Hasan on October 24, 2019.
The name of her nine-month-old child Umair Bin Sadi was also mentioned as a petitioner in the petition.
Ishrat Hasan told The Daily Star that the HC has given reasonable time to the government to set up the breastfeeding corners at all government and private work places across the country.
The details of the verdict can be known after its full text is released, she added.
The writ petition said mothers feel uneasy to feed their children at the workplaces, shopping malls, airports, bus stoppages and railway stations as there is no specific breastfeeding and baby care corners.
In the petition, the mother said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2009 had directed the authorities concerned to establish breastfeeding corners and day care centres at all public and private workplaces in order to ensure safe motherhood and to ensure a healthy environment for children
But the directives of the PM are yet to be fully implemented, the petition said.
Deputy Attorney General SK Saifuzzaman represented the state during hearing of the petition.
