Photo: Kensington PalaceMumbai: If the first two years of the NDA government were all about its flagship Swachh Bharat programme, the focus seems to have shifted in recent months toward menstrual hygiene management. In February, minister for women and child development Maneka Gandhi launched the social media campaign #YesIBleed. “There are different initiatives being implemented by several government departments to address different components of menstrual hygiene management but more co-ordination is needed. But a lot more needs to be done,” Versova legislator Bharati Lavekar, who set up India’s first sanitary pad bank, told Mint. A Mumbai hoarding on MLA Lavekar’s sanitary pad bank.

Source: Mint May 26, 2018 03:56 UTC