Menstrual Hygiene: 553 Delhi schools to get sanitary napkin incinerators

NEW DELHI: To maintain the menstrual hygiene, 553 government and municipal schools in Delhi will soon install sanitary napkin incinerators. The machines will burn used sanitary napkins allowing their safe disposal in schools.

As per the July order of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the incinerators will be installed in 3,204 toilet blocks of girls and co-ed schools under the Directorate of Education (DoE) and Delhi’s municipal corporations.

The heads of school, through the official order, have been directed to supervise the installation of the machines. Each HoS will have to provide a designated place with proper ventilation for its installation.

Menstrual hygiene in schools

Every month, under the Kishori Shakti Yojna, female students between the ages of 11 and 18 are provided with sanitary napkin packets across the country. The scheme, under the Ministry of Women and Child Development, intends to improve the health status of adolescent girls in India.

The school head will be required to appoint a female science laboratory assistant and put female science teachers in charge of the incinerators. The teacher-in-charge will be responsible to “ demonstrate the proper way of using sanitary napkin incinerators”, said the official notice.

Every month, proper training to use the machine will be organised for all girls from Class 5 to Class 12. The training will continue till the girls are “proficient” in using the incinerators, notice further said.

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