Udaan scheme: 1 lakh women to receive sanitary pads for free

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, May 28

The state government announced Project Udaan today to mark World Menstrual Hygiene Day, and said free sanitary pads will be distributed among women and girls living below poverty under the pilot project.

This information was given by Chief Administrator, PUDA Palvi Chaudhary while attending an event on menstrual hygiene awareness in the city today.

Chaudhary said there were 859 Anganwadi centres running in the district through which pregnant women of the district and children of 0 to 5 years of age were being given the benefit of government schemes. She said each Anganwadi worker would provide sanitary pads to 50 girls or women each. “Under Udaan project, over one lakh women in state will receive sanitary pads,” she said.

District Program Officer, Manjinder Singh said 12 CDPOs of the district would go door-to-door with the Anganwadi workers to provide sanitary pads.

The MC had already installed 31 sanitary pad vending machines across city where one can get one sanitary pad after inserting Rs 5 coin and three for Rs 10. these machines have been installed at government senior secondary schools and at different public toilets located inside walled city, IDH Market, Ranjit Avenue B Block Market and several prominent public places.

“The machines had been installed last year onwards under Smart city development plan. Till now around 12 government schools have been given the vending machines, but soon we plan to install such machines in all senior secondary government schools in the district,” said Komal Mittal, MC, Commissioner.