Menstrual Hygiene Day 2021: Major challenges faced by rural girls and women during menstruation - The fourth National Family Health Survey in 2015-16 showed half the women in rural India do not use hygienic methods of protection during periods.
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The Rajasthan government allocated Rs 200 crore to the Free Medicine Scheme, which will also be spent on menstrual hygiene products.
This Menstrual Hygiene Day, observed globally on May 28, it is more important than ever to highlight the importance of investing in adolescent health.
Restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic have adversely impacted menstrual health in India by cutting off access to free sanitary napkins.
New Delhi: The Rajasthan government allocated Rs 200 crore to the Free Medicine Scheme, which will also be spent on menstrual hygiene products. This Menstrual Hygiene Day, observed globally on May 28, it is more important than ever to highlight the importance of investing in adolescent health and well-being and break taboos around menstruation.
Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) Friday said it will declare the Class 10 Matric SSC result 2021 by the end of the next month i.e. June.
Lakshadweep s two-child norm defies all logic: NGO
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New Delhi, May 28 : Public health expert Poonam Muttreja has said that Lakshadweep administration s proposed two-child norm defies all logic.
The Lakshadweep administration has proposed a new panchayat regulation that makes any person with more than two children ineligible to contest the panchayat polls.
Clause 14 of the draft regulation states that those with more than two children cannot contest panchayat elections. Neither can a person with more than two children be a member of a gram panchayat or continue as such.