The East Coast Railway Women’s Welfare Organisation (ECoRWWO) on Monday installed an automatic sanitary napkin vending machine ‘Happy Nari’ each at the Khordha Road railway station and the Sambalpur railway station.
ECoRWWO Khordha Road president Shikha Agarwal and Sambalpur president Monika Gupta inaugurated the machines at respective women’s waiting rooms.
The machine would be very useful to the women passengers as well as women employees. They can avail the facility at a cost of Rs 5 only.
Each machine with a capacity of 75 pads was installed at a cost of Rs 16,000.
Prior to this, sanitary napkin vending machines have been installed at Bhubaneswar and Visakhapatnam railway stations by the ECoRWWO.