Supply sanitary pads through ration shops: PIL at Madras High Court

The Madras High Court, connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025), sought the effect of the Tamil Nadu authorities to a nationalist involvement litigation petition which insisted connected supplying sanitary napkins, either escaped of outgo oregon astatine subsidised rates, done the ration shops which instrumentality the Public Distribution System (PDS).

First Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan ordered a antagonistic affidavit connected behalf the State authorities indispensable beryllium filed by December 16 failing which the officials acrophobic indispensable beryllium contiguous successful the tribunal that time to explicate the delay.

Chennai-based advocator Lakshmi Raja, 38, had filed the PIL plea connected the crushed that astir women and young girls extremity up pursuing unhygienic menstrual practices due to the fact that of economical constraints successful purchasing disposable sanitary pads and hence it was indispensable to proviso them done just terms shops.

Stating the usage of soiled cloth materials, papers, tissues, rags and leaves arsenic a menstruation proviso was known arsenic ‘period poverty,’ the petitioner said, it was indispensable to proviso to supply astatine slightest 25 disposable sanitary pads a period to each family, done PDS, since they were besides an indispensable commodity.