J'khnd govt push for SHGs manufacturing sanitary pads

February 13, 2018 15:01

The Jharkhand government will purchase sanitary napkins from Self-help Groups for distribution among schoolgirls, Chief Minister Raghubar Das has said. The government had during the recent budget session taken this decision to empower women working in SHGs,the CM told reporters yesterday after inspecting a sanitary napkin manufacturing centre at Bagunhatu in Jamshedpur East constituency, his home turf. Das had won five times in a row from the constituency since 1995.

PadMan star Akshay Kumar posts a picture with a sanitary napkin as part of the #PadMan Challenge.

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