Women from BPL families to get free sanitary napkins
CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday announced that the state government will provide sanitary napkins free of cost to all women in the state who belong to BPL families.
Speaking at a national-level consultation workshop on management and elimination of malnutrition in Haryana organised by National Health Mission (NHM) in collaboration with NITI Ayog and Centre for health research and development-Society for Applied Studies here, he said the government had already announced to make supply of sanitary napkins free for all schoolgirls in the state.
Khattar also said the state will become malnutrition-free in the coming three years. He said that the monthly average of gender ratio had touched 937 which was around 840 before the launch of Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao programme. Now, the gender ratio in most districts was over 900 girls per 1000 boys, he said.
Expressing concern over the status of malnutrition, Khattar said though the state had ample resources, there was a need to generate awareness about vari- ous programmes being implemented by the government for the prevention of malnutrition among children.
He said that “Panjiri”, a sweet made of fortified flour, was already being given to anganwari centres. “Now, we have also decided to provide other items of fortified flour in these centres in the first phase,” he said, adding that government had also set a target to make Haryana anaemia-free in three years and Miss World Manushi Chhillar has been appointed the brand ambassador for the campaign.
Speaking on the occasion, NITI Ayog member Vinod Paul said that under the national nutrition mission, all the children should be nutritional by the year 2022.
SAYS GOVT HAD ALREADY ANNOUNCED TO GIVE FREE SANITARY NAPKINS TO ALL SCHOOLGIRLS IN STATE