Good news ladies: Railways to soon have sanitary napkin vending machines on trains

In what comes across as a good news to ladies, East Coast Railway of the Indian Railways division will install automatic sanitary napkin vending machines in all important trains originating from its jurisdiction, a Railways official was quoted as saying by the PTI.
 

Sanitary napkin vending machines in 90 compartments of 63 trains from Gandhi Jayanti would be installed with the price of a sanitary napkin being kept at Rs 5. Passengers can get them by inserting a Rs 5 coin in the vending machines, which can vend 75 pads at a time.
 

The decision was taken after successful acceptance and response from women passengers following installation of vending machines in Bhubaneswar-Jagadalpur Hirakhand Express.
 

The step has been taken to improve sanitation and hygiene and the facility has already been extended to Bhubaneswar-Bangalore Prashanti Express with a bid to promoting 'Swachh Rail Swachh Bharat' mission.

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