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Imphal, Nov 23
District administration of Imphal East today distributed re-usable sanitary pad to girl students of government and government aided schools of the district.
Deputy Commissioner of Imphal East who attended the inaugural function of the distribution held at Wangkhei High School in Imphal east talking to journalist at the sideline of the function said that the initiative is taken up under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in collaboration with the DPO Imphal District, ICDS Cell, ZEO Zone –II and Global Shapers Community Imphal.
“ We now have 5000 re-usable sanitary pad donated from Shahikiran Charitable Trust, the district administration will picked up 5000 girl students after identification and we are distributing to around 1000 school today”, Dr. Rangitabli said.
The Deputy Commissioner also stated that school dropout rate of girls students is high as they could not afford sanitary pad. She said that programme will continue in the coming days.