NEW DELHI: Following the Kerala government’s initiative of “She pad” scheme, the Student Federation of India(SFI) has also led a bigger campaign with a tag of “Bleed without Fear” in the country’s premier university of Delhi demanding for the installation of sanitary napkin vending machines in all the college on Monday.
Hundreds of students from the Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University has given their support to the campaign led by SFI. The students pasted sanitary pad in trees and wall of the north campus with the hash-tag slogan “Bleed Without fear” written on it.
“Our demand was not only against the high GST tax on the pads but our Bleed without fear is also stands for the menstrual hygienic health of the female community. Every school and college should install sanitary napkin vending machines with good quality of pads with an environment safely disposal mechanism,” said Satarupa Chakraborty, member of SFI.
The scores of the student also demanded the good quality of pad from the sanitary napkin vending machine in a very low-cost affordable amount. The students demanded the machines should be installed especially in the remote area and villages so that students from all the sections of the society can afford to buy.
“There are three napkin vending machine in our college among which only one works and other two is lying defunct due to lack of maintenance. So the colleges should provide free pads and it should take care of the machines” said a DU student.