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Sanitary napkins person not been declared an indispensable commodity. Yet, the Tamil Nadu authorities had sanctioned ₹113.10 crore successful the fiscal twelvemonth 2024-25 towards implementation of menstrual hygiene programme successful some agrarian and municipality areas, Advocate General P.S. Raman told the Madras High Court connected Wednesday.
Appearing earlier the archetypal Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan who were seized of a nationalist involvement litigation petition insisting upon proviso of sanitary napkins done ration shops, the A-G said, the napkins had not yet been notified nether the Essential Commodities Act.
Mr. Raman said, definite schemes were already successful cognition successful the State for providing sanitary napkins, either escaped of outgo oregon astatine subsidised rates, to prime classes of women including teen girls. He besides stated that the authorities had been allocating sizeable magnitude of wealth successful each budget.
After signaling his submissions, the judges called for further accusation from the State authorities successful bid to find retired if the payment of the strategy could beryllium extended to a larger people of women successful the State. They requested the A-G to guarantee that the accusation was submitted by January 27, 2026.
The Bench wanted to cognize the percent of women colonisation surviving beneath the poorness enactment (BPL) class successful the State and the percent who were supra BPL class but autumn nether the people of economically weaker sections of society. “On the ground of information, this tribunal volition marque an effort to span the spread by issuing further directions,” it said.
The tribunal besides wanted to cognize what would beryllium the further fiscal load if these categories of women excessively were included successful the ongoing menstrual hygiene programme of the State.
