🇮🇳How does India mark What the law gives you after a child is born?

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India put maternity protection into its constitution, but in a particular place. Article 42 sits in the Directive Principles of State Policy and reads: the State shall make provision for securing just and humane conditions of work and for maternity relief. The catch is Article 37, in the same Part: the provisions of this Part “shall not be enforceable by any court, but the principles therein laid down are nevertheless fundamental in the governance of the country and it shall be the duty of the State to apply these principles in making laws.” Maternity relief is therefore a task the constitution hands to the legislature, not a right one can take to court — and the only text that says so plainly is the constitution itself. That is unlike the other six markets, where the leave lives in labour statutes and the days, the wages and the penalties can be claimed directly. What an Indian worker actually gets thus depends on the legislation that follows and on whom that legislation reaches, not on Article 42.