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Sanitary pad manufacturing units to be set up in all blocks by Govt: Prasad

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Sanitary pad manufacturing units to be set up in all blocks by Govt: Prasad
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Sanitary pad making units to be set up in all blocks of the country by the government through a special purpose vehicle CSC e-Governance Services India, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday. "One sanitary pad making unit by the CSC shall be opened in each block of India..., which will be sold at a low price of Rs 5-8 a unit through village-level entrepreneurs; so that we can progressively work in direction of improving natural hygiene," the Union law and IT minister told reports. publive-image Operations of common service centers (CSCs) across India is to provide government services in the rural area and off-late have diversified into selling ayurvedic products, LED bulbs etc. "Through this, we will have 60,000 women VLEs employed. We talk about Swachh Bharat so menstrual hygiene is important as part of Swachh Bharat," Prasad said. At present 2.8 lakh CSCs are operational across about 1.7 lakh gram panchayats (GPs), he added. "There is 2.5 lakh GPs in the country. We have decided that by May, CSCs should be operating in balance 70,000 GPs," Prasad said. "We need to think about ways to encourage people in getting Aadhaar," Prasad said. He said alternate document should be used for providing benefits to the poor till they get Aadhaar. As per government data, there are about 120 crore Aadhaar users in the country and 14 crores are yet to be enrolled. Most of the people left out of Aadhaar are in the age group of 0-5 years and belong to North East, Jammu, and Kashmir. -PTC News-
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