Students and staff of Charamakki Narayana Shetty Memorial Government High School, Albadi-Ardi in Kundapur, pose before the sanitary napkin disposal pit built by them
UDUPI: While speaking about menstruation still continues to be taboo at several places, a team of teachers and boys have built a sanitary napkin disposal pit for a safe, dignified and inclusive menstrual waste disposal.
Since the incinerator for used sanitary napkin disposal at the Charamakki Narayana Shetty Memorial Government High School, Albadi- Ardi in Kundapur, was not working, Suresh Marakal, a social science teacher who had won the national award in 2019 through the Jeevan Shikshan programme, got nearly 40 students and 10 teachers, including headmaster Shekhar Shettigar and non-teaching staff to build the pit that was commissioned on Monday.