Empowering Girls in High Schools-
Conduct of World Menstruation Day on 28.05.2022 – Certain instructions issued
Rc.No.01/DIR(CO)/2022 Date:26/05/2022
Sub: - School Education - Empowering
Girls in High Schools- Conduct of World Menstruation Day on 28.05.2022 –
Certain instructions issued to the RJDs and DEOs in the State – Reg.
The attention of all the Regional Joint
Directors and District Educational Officers in the state is invited to the
subject cited above and it is informed that the Menstrual Hygiene Day (MHD, MH
Day in short) is on May 28th to highlight the importance of good Menstrual
Hygiene Management (MHM) among the girl students. It aims to create an occasion
for publicizing information in the media, including social media. Public
information campaigns can help to engage decision-makers in policy dialogue.
The day offers an opportunity to actively advocate for the integration of
menstrual hygiene management (MHM) into local policies and programmes.
In this connection, an event may be
conducted by involving trained Master Resource Persons and peer educated
children on MHM for raising the awareness with the following objectives:
• For creating awareness on safe use and
disposal of sanitary pads.
• Explain the concepts about basics on
Menarche, Hygiene during menstruation, Science behind Menstruation, Misconceptions
and right approaches and Safe Disposal.
• Promotion of best practices at
Menstrual time.
• To address the challenges and
hardships many women and girls face during their menstruation.
• To highlight the positive and
innovative solutions being taken to address these challenges.
• Organizing any activity related to MHM
and displaying videos on MHM for motivation.
• To engage in policy dialogue and
actively advocate for the integration of menstrual hygiene management (MHM)
into local policies and programmes.
• To create an occasion for media work,
including social media.
Further all the Regional Joint Directors
and District Educational Officers in the State are informed to bring awareness
among the students on disposal of sanitary napkins to adolescent girl students with
the following objectives after reopening of schools.
I. Every School shall provide a dust bin
(used napkin bin) in every girl’s toilet.
II. The aaya shall dispose the used
napkins by emptying the bins every day.
III. The HMs shall buy sufficient napkin
bins for all adolescent girls.
IV. Every bathroom shall have a minimum
of 10 newspapers at all times to facilitate sanitary napkin disposal.
V. Every bin shall have 120 litre
garbage bag at any given time, need to buy 20 bags per month.
VI. The aaya should dispose the garbage
bags into town/ village sanitation disposal system.
VII. The HMs shall buy these items
either from SMF or school grant fund available with them.
VIII. The HM/ Teacher designated shall
take photograph of bins along with photos of toilets in TMF app.
Therefore, all the Regional Joint
Directors of School Education and District Educational officers in the State
are informed to take necessary action to conduct the event on MHM on 28th May,
2022 in all Districts accordingly.
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