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In a First, Bhopal Rly Station Installs Sanitary Napkin Vending Machine

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Charvi Kathuria
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As a New Year gift to women passengers, Bhopal station has installed a sanitary napkin machine on one of its platforms. With this, it has also become the first railway station in the country to have installed such a machine.

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It has been installed at platform number 1 of Bhopal Railway station by the Railway Women Welfare Association of Bhopal Division. The machine is being called "Happy Nari" and has been set up with the help of a local NGO, Arushi.

The machine can store 75 sanitary napkins at once. A female staff attendant has been entrusted with the responsibility of refilling the sanitary napkins and she has received special training for it.

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The machine was refilled nine times proving its need.  The machine was installed near the waiting room to facilitate women passengers. Two sanitary napkins cost Rs 5 only.

Anjali Thakur, the eldest grade IV worker of the railway station, inaugurated the machine.

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Making sanitary napkins more accessible

Monitoring in-charge Subodh Kulkarni said, "This machine makes easy availability and accessibility of sanitary napkins for female passengers. Even before the inauguration, there were few women who asked us for napkins. We helped them by giving it away from the stock. One of the passengers thanked us as her train was to leave the platform soon when she was in need."

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 "We will make sure that it is well maintained. The railway will also advertises it so that females passengers are aware about the facility and can make optimum use of it," he added.

 That's definitely a very good step in the direction of promoting menstrual hygiene among women and eliminating the stigma around it. We hope more such railway stations across the country come up with a similar initiative.

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