Citing a Supreme Court order dated April 10, 2023, the government approved the menstrual hygiene policy for school-going girls on November 2.
The Central Government has made this new policy to improve and facilitate 'menstrual hygiene' for girls in schools. The Central Government informed this to the Supreme Court on 11 November.
In fact, on April 10, 2023, Congress leader and social activist Jaya Thakur had filed a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) in the Supreme Court. In which an appeal was made to the Central and State Governments to provide free sanitary pads to girl students from class 6 to 12 and also to provide separate toilet facilities for girls in all government and government-aided private schools.
Keeping this appeal in mind, this policy has been made. The Central Government said that it has also been approved on 2 November. This order was given regarding menstrual hygiene of girl students in the school.
The menstrual hygiene policy has been approved on 2 November.
Petitions were filed regarding menstrual hygiene
According to the affidavit filed regarding the pending cases of menstrual hygiene, this policy was brought to bring menstrual hygiene as a daily activity in the school system of the government to increase the understanding about menstrual hygiene among the school girls and to bring about a change in the thinking and behavior regarding it. Is.
The purpose of bringing this policy is to remove the obstacles which prevent girl students from coming to school during the 'menstrual cycle'. It is often seen that due to lack of clean toilets and pads in the school, girl students do not go to school these days.
In the appeal, separate toilet facilities for girls were demanded in government and government-aided private schools.
The bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and Pankaj Mithal is going to hear this appeal on November 12.
It has been demanded that the survey system in schools should be improved and it should be found out how it can be improved. So that it can be known what improvements can be made by the states and union territories so that students in government and government-aided private schools have information about hygiene related to menstrual cycle and can get products related to it.
The central government said, the objective of this policy is to eliminate harmful social taboos and make the menstrual cycle safe.
It has been said in this policy that it will help in making the girl students independent.
Awareness on menstrual hygiene is zero all over the world
UNICEF and WHO had released a report on Menstrual Hygiene Day on menstrual cycle, which included a study on the facilities provided to girls in schools.
According to the report, 50 crore women never use pads.
According to Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHM), approximately 50 crore women never have access to menstrual hygiene and related products (pads, tampons).
36 percent of the girls already knew about the menstrual cycle before their first periods.
Period products free provision introduced in Scotland in 2020
scotland In November 2020, the Period Products Free Provision Act was unanimously approved. Once the Period Products Act is implemented, the products will be distributed through councils and education sectors. This Act was introduced by Labor Party MSP Monica Lennon, who had been running a movement since 2016 against periods poverty i.e. not being able to buy period products due to poverty.
In 2018, according to a survey by Young Scots
A survey in Britain revealed that 64 percent of girls are unable to go to school due to periods.
447 million students do not have clean drinking water
According to the report, the world needs to act urgently to improve access to menstrual products, health and hygiene in schools. These issues should be discussed openly so that every schoolgirl can talk about menstrual products, cleanliness and hygiene related to it. The report also includes access to water and sanitation in schools.
According to the latest data today, 1 in 5 children (447 million) still do not have access to clean drinking water in their school. 1 in 5 children (427 million) do not have access to basic sanitation and 1 in 3 children (646 million) do not have access to any sanitation facilities.
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 will require a two-fold increase from the current rates of progress for basic drinking water, a two-fold increase for basic sanitation and a four-fold increase for basic sanitation services. There are only 30 countries in the world where there is a process to track the menstrual cycle.
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