Women and Sanitation: Legal Control on Improper Sanitary Waste Disposal is Need of the Hour!

Shiilpaa Mahaddevaswamy

Abstract


The life of women is always associated with cleanliness, sanitization and sanctity in and around her. The first person to teach about hygiene and cleanliness is the ‘mother’ (Woman) as the whole world witnesses this. But, now-a-days sanitation and women are getting separated logically as the management of both is turned to be logger head at the two ends.

The modern world is concentrating on advancement, development, technological inventions and innovations but, somewhere ethical point of views is lost. Every step towards ultra modern thinking, the contribution of women is being a part of it without fail but, the natural concept which is inseparable and inalienable right to have hygienic environment and all the facilities to be provided for her to maintain the most important Menstrual Hygiene Management is lost and has gone unnoticed ever. Never the late, it is time to bring a revolutionary adaptations of new changes to proclaim and practice the hygienic environment in home and outside as her dignity and rights to be supported with management of proper disposal system for Menstrual Hygienic materials and its management through strict implementations of legal rules for effective control. It is the responsibility of every citizen towards clean Bharat that is towards “Swatch Bharath Abhiyana” upholding Constitutional requirement of India.


Keywords


Menstrual hygiene, Sanitary napkin, Biomedical waste, Legal system.

Full Text:

PDF

References


www.thekachraproject.in.

http://greeninhygiene.com/2011/12/20/stale-sani tation-the-dangers-of-common-sanitary-waste-disposal-bins/.

http://www.thestatesman.com/mobi/news/67923-proper-disposal-of-menstrual-waste-imperative-campaign.html.

http://www.sswm.info/content/menstrual-hygiene-management.

http://www.wssinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ resources/MENSTRUAL-HYGIENE-MANAGEMENT-Paper-for-END-group-1.pdf.

https://in.news.yahoo.com/why-are-we-pretending-that-there-isn-t-a-growing-mountain-of-menstrual-waste-we-need-to-deal-with-11165 9074.html.

http://www.unwater.org/downloads/media/sani tation/10Things.pdf.

Books

Agrawal SK. Wealth from Waste. 3rd edn. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, 2002.

Anderson RF. Public Health and the Environment, The United States Experience. Greenberg MR (Ed.). New York, The Guilford Press, 1987.

Sahne A. Introduction to Legal Experts of Health Care. 1st edn. Indian Society of Health, Administrators, Bangalore, 1995.

Basu DD. Shorter Constitution of India. 13th edn. Wadhwa and Company, Nagpur, 2001.

Bell S, McGillivray D. Environmental Law: The Law and Policy relating to the Protection of the Environment. 5th edn. Blackstone Press, Oxford University Press, 2000.

Betty K. The Concise Oxford Thesaurus, A Dictionary of Synonyms. First Indian edn. Oxford University Press, London, 2000.

Rao B. Textbook of Community Medicine. 1st edn. Hyderabad, India, 2004.

Blackman WC. Basic Hazardous Waste Management. Boca Raton CRC Press, 2001.

C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre. Environmental Laws of India, Chennai, 2006.

C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre. Environmental Laws of India, Chennai, 2007.

CEERA Research Team National Law School. Introduction to Environmental Laws of India, Documents Volume I, Bangalore, 1998.

Cumston CG. History of Medicine. Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi, 1999.

Das BC, Malini S. Textbook of Community Medicine. 1st edn. Ahuja Book Company Pvt Ltd, 2003.

Woodley D. Introduction to Environmental Law. 1st edn. 2000.

Davidson. Principles and Practice of Medicine. 17th edn. Churchill Livingstone, New York, 1995.

Dhaar GM. Introduction to Foundation of Community Medicine. 1st edn. Elsevier India Pvt Ltd, 2006.

Divan S, Rosencranz A. Environmental Law and Policy in India. 2nd edn. Oxford University Press, 2002.

Dorland’s Pocket Medical Dictionary. 21st edn. Second Indian Reprint. American Publishers W.B. Saunders Co. Philadelphia, U.S.A., 1969.

Kishore J, Ingle GK. Bio-Medical Waste Management in India. 1st edn. Century Publications, New Delhi, 2004.

Padma. International Environmental Law. 1st edn. Asia Law House, Hyderabad, 2003.

Twinch E. Medical Waste Management. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Nov 2011.

Family and welfare Department. Village Health and Sanitation. Hand Book, Apr 2010.

Pandey GN. Environmental Management. Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, 2004.

Ghai UR, Chadha K. International Law. 1st edn. New Academic Publishing Co., Jalandhar, 2000.

Sinha HM. Legal Dictionary. Allahabad Law Agency, Allahabad, 1995.

Dube I. Environmental Jurisprudence Polluter’s Liability. LexisNexis Butterworths, New Delhi, 2007.

Jain MP, Jain SN. Principles of Administrative Law. 6th edn. Wadhwa and Company, Nagpur, 2007.

Jain MP. Indian Constitutional Law. 5th edn. Wadhwa and Company, Nagpur, 2003.

Symonides J. Human Rights Concept and Standards, UNESCO. Ashgate Publishing Company, England (Vermont USA), Nov 2000.

Joga Rao SV. Bio-Medical Waste and The Law. 1st edn. Legalaxy- Bangalore, 2004.

Myneni SR. Law Relating to Women. 3rd Edition. Asia law House, Hyderabad, 2015.


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2015 International Journal of Preventive, Curative & Community Medicine (ISSN: 2454-325X)

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.