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The Supreme Court connected Friday (January 20, 2026) directed each States and Union Territories to guarantee miss students successful backstage and authorities schools are provided bio-degradable menstrual sanitary pads for free, and held that the close to menstrual wellness is simply a portion of the cardinal close to beingness enshrined successful the Constitution.
A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan told States and Union Territories to guarantee abstracted toilets for pistillate and antheral students successful each schools. It besides said each schools, irrespective of whether they are State-run oregon controlled, volition person to supply disabled-friendly toilets.
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"The close to menstrual wellness is portion of the close to beingness nether Article 21 of the Constitution," the tribunal held. It said that if backstage schools neglect to supply these facilities, they volition beryllium de-recognised.
The Bench besides said that it would clasp governments accountable if they excessively neglect to supply for toilets and escaped sanitary pads to girls.
The apical tribunal has reserved its verdict connected a PIL filed by Jaya Thakur connected December 10, 2024, seeking pan-India implementation of the Union government's 'Menstrual Hygiene Policy for school-going girls' successful authorities and government-aided schools for teen girls students from Classes 6 to 12.
