Pad Woman of Odisha on a Mission to Popularise Sanitary Napkins
B Gopamma, the ‘Pad Woman’ of Odisha has started an initiative to enable adolescent girls and young women of local self-help groups produce sanitary napkins that have become popular in nearby areas.
When Arunachalam Muruganantham is creating waves across the country with his invention of machines producing low-cost sanitary napkins, Gopamma of Ganjam’s Markandi village is on a similar mission in Odisha.