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Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal connected Tuesday called for expanding the usage and promotion of menstrual cups arsenic an alternate to sanitary napkins, citing their precocious outgo and biology impact.
He said successful a property merchandise that menstrual cups guarantee amended idiosyncratic hygiene and lend to sustainable discarded management.
Mr. Balagopal was speaking aft inaugurating the State-level motorboat of a Haritha Keralam Mission task to administer menstrual cups and instal incinerators.
He said incinerators would play a important relation successful the technological disposal of synthetic sanitary napkins, which airs biology challenges.
The Minister said the allocation of funds for menstrual cups and incinerators successful the State Budget had drawn attraction crossed the country.
He added that Kerala was the archetypal State to contiguous an environment-friendly udget and that the recently launched task was portion of that initiative.
Haritha Keralam Mission vice-chairperson T.N. Seema, who outlined the project, said the programme was included successful the environment-friendly Budget presented by the State government.
The relation was held astatine Muttara Government Higher Secondary and Vocational Higher Secondary School successful Veliyam grama panchayat successful Kollam district, with Kollam territory panchayat president R. Latha Devi presiding.
As portion of the programme, an consciousness league connected the usage of menstrual cups and the cognition of incinerators was conducted, the merchandise said.
