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In Chhattisgarh's terror zone, women groups step up in sanitary campaign

Engage in making sanitary pads to battle social stigma

Govt lists essential hygiene products, gives industry price control scare
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R Krishna Das Raipur
Women in Chhattisgarh’s restive pockets under the shadow of Maoist terror are engaged in a different war; manufacturing sanitary pads to combat social stigma attached to menstrual hygiene in the remote areas.

Dantewada, the district infamous across the globe for deadly Maoist violence, is writing a new script of women empowerment and development. The women self help groups (SHGs) in the district were becoming not only self-sufficient by availing the benefits of different schemes floated by the government but also working for the social cause in the areas that was once totally cut off from the main stream of the society.

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