MUAR: The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry will ask the Defence Ministry to exempt young mothers with babies who need to be breastfed or allow them deferment from national service.
Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said that Section 20 of the National Service Act provided for those with extreme hardship to delay their NS training.
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