The State Government on Tuesday launched a web application to ensure that the supply chain management for the ‘Khusi’ scheme remains hassle-free. Additional Chief Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra inaugurated the scheme. With this web application, sanitary napkins can be stocked adequately at block-level warehouses. Besides, nodal officers of schools would be able to distribute sanitary napkin pads to girl students in a smooth manner, said Mohapatra.An official of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) that helped the Government launch the web application said transparency could be maintained in the supply and distribution of sanitary napkin pads and adequate stocks at the block level could be ensured with the help of this application.
Under the Government’s flagship scheme Khusi, adolescent girls from Classes-VI to XII in all Government and Government-aided schools in all 314 blocks and five municipal corporations are provided sanitary napkins free of cost. For the year 2020-21, the Government has released Rs 30 crore for the scheme, which Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had launched in February 2019.