Odisha Govt to Distribute Free Sanitary Pads in Flood Affected Areas
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government will distribute sanitary pads in the flood affected areas in the State free of cost. In a letter to the Collectors of 10 flood affected districts – Khordha, Puri, Cuttack, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Nayagarh, Balasore, Bhadrak, Keonjhar and Boudh, the Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) has asked them to make it sure that [...]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government will distribute sanitary pads in the flood affected areas in the State free of cost.
In a letter to the Collectors of 10 flood affected districts – Khordha, Puri, Cuttack, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Nayagarh, Balasore, Bhadrak, Keonjhar and Boudh, the Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) has asked them to make it sure that girls and women in marooned villages get sanitary pads.
“Proper medical care along with sanitation measures is essential for women/girls who are marooned due to flood. Hence, you are requested to kindly instruct CDMO to procure sanitary/hygienic as emergency sanitation measures (emergent relief) and distribute to women/girls in the marooned areas. The cost of such expenditure shall be borne by SRC out of SDRF,” the letter stated.
The flood situation in Balasore and Mayurbhanj, located on the Subrankarekha river basin, continued to be grim with hundreds of villages in the seven blocks getting marooned by the rising river water.
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