Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan would launch the Ujjwala Sanitary Napkins Initiative, a CSR activity by Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs), here on December 30 to set up manufacturing units of napkins at common service centres (CSCs) across the State.
CSC Odisha State Head Swarnaprava Singh, IOCL GM (LPG) Sanjay Kumar Jha, BPCL Odisha and Jharkhand State Head (LPG) Sanjay Sharma, HPCL DGM (LPG) Dharmendra and IOCL CC Senior Manager Srinivash Patra informed this at a Press meet here on Friday.
Singh said 100 local manufacturing units would be set up at CSCs’ across all 30 districts, covering 93 blocks in the State. The cost of setting up these manufacturing units would Rs 2.94 crore.
Each facility would have the capacity to produce 1,200-2,000 pads each day and would have a sterilisation room to ensure that the napkins are sterilised before they are packed for consumption of rural women, she added.
The CSCs are also being provided with raw material, enough to make 45,000-50,000 pads. The napkins would be priced at Rs 40 per pack and each pack would contain eight pads.
Each manufacturing unit would employ five to six Ujjwala beneficiaries and, thus, a totl of 600 Ujjwala beneficiaries would get employment.