New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday held that access to menstrual hygiene is an integral part of a girl child’s right to life, dignity, health and education, and issued a comprehensive set of mandatory directions to all states and UTs (union territories) to ensure free sanitary napkins, functional gender-segregated toilets and menstrual health awareness in every school across the country. A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan, while observing that “a period sho…
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Guwahati, Jan 13 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said the state government’s education reforms are yielding tangible results, with secondary school dropout rates declining by 42 per cent over the last decade, reflecting what he described as a decisive shift from merely creating infrastructure to building educational capacity at scale. Sharing the data on the social media platform X, the Chief Minister stated that more students in Assam are now enrolled in schools tha…