Odisha announces sanitary hygiene initiatives for school girls and rural women
Bhuvneshwar, Mar 5 (IBNS): The Odisha government has launched a state-wide campaign to provide free sanitary napkins to every girl in government schools across the state.
The Odisha government will also provide sanitary napkins to women in rural communities at Rs.1 each.
“Women empowerment is very close to my heart,” said Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik. “From Mission Shakti that has benefitted 5mn women to MAMATA Yojana and 50% reservation (in Urban local bodies), women have been the focal point of all our key interventions.”
This most-recent campaign titled Khushi, will be implemented by the health and family welfare department of the state at a cost of 70 crore per year.
Odisha is the only state in India where 63.5 % women own immovable assets: land and homes, against the national average of 35%.
3.5mn women have been benefitted by Mamata Yojana: India’s largest cash-transfer maternity benefit scheme.
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