{"id":130878,"date":"2022-01-28T09:29:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=130878"},"modified":"2022-01-28T09:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:29:55","slug":"kumbalanghi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/kumbalanghi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumbalanghi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question &#8211; In which state is India&#8217;s first sanitary napkin free panchayat &#8220;Kumbalangi&#8221; located?<\/strong><br>(a) Goa<br>(b) Kerala<br>(c) Andhra Pradesh<br>(d) Karnataka<br><strong>Answer\u2014(b)<br>Related facts\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In January 2022, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan declared &#8220;Kumbalanghi&#8221; as the country&#8217;s first sanitary napkin free panchayat.<\/li><li>This panchayat is located in Ernakulam district of Kerala.<\/li><li>The move is part of Avalkayi initiative, implemented in Ernakulam parliamentary constituency in collaboration with HLL Academy of Management and Indian Oil Corporation&#8217;s &#8216;Thingal Scheme&#8217;.<\/li><li>Under this initiative, women of 18 years of age and above were distributed menstrual cups and awareness programs were organized in the panchayat.<\/li><li>It is worth mentioning that Kumbalanghi is also India&#8217;s first model (eco-friendly) tourism village.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/keralas-kumbalanghi-to-be-indias-first-sanitary-napkin-free-village\/article38247633.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/keralas-kumbalanghi-to-be-indias-first-sanitary-napkin-free-village\/article38247633.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question &#8211; In which state is India&#8217;s first sanitary napkin free panchayat &#8220;Kumbalangi&#8221; located?(a) Goa(b) Kerala(c) Andhra Pradesh(d) KarnatakaAnswer\u2014(b)Related facts\u2014 In January 2022, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan declared &#8220;Kumbalanghi&#8221; as the country&#8217;s first sanitary napkin free panchayat. This panchayat is located in Ernakulam district of Kerala. The move is part of Avalkayi initiative, implemented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-130878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130880,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130878\/revisions\/130880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}