GST on sanitary napkins should go

It refers to petition filed in Delhi High Court challenging imposition of 12% GST on sanitarynapkins. While at a time the central government is spending and rightly so on doing away with defecation in public, promotion and awareness about sanitary napkins should also be promoted by central government. At least there is no logic in imposing GST on such an item essential for body hygiene. The petitioner in the court has pointed out that currently 88% of menstruating women in India do not have access to sanitary napkins. It is noteworthy that free sanitary napkins are provided to girl students in schools on start of the age for menstruating. It is therefore like taking money from one pocket of government to spend on providing free napkins, and then putting same money in other pocket by buying tax-paid sanitary napkins for providing free to schoolgirls.