NONAIPARA TE,July 18:An awareness camp on Nutrition and Menstrual Cycle was held at the Hospital of Nonaipara Tea Garden belonging to Goodricke Group Ltd on July 17 at 11 am.The awareness camp was inaugurated by senior Goodricke lady Dolly Das and attendant by wives of all tea executives working in Nonaipara TE besides female workers and girls students from the Tea Garden community. Nonaipara has been situated at the remote India-Bhutan international border inhabited mostly by tea garden, Nepali and Bodo community.Infrastructure bottlenecks namely-education,health,drinking water and road communication had been major causes for which the villagers have been falling prey to blind believe and superstition. Bimolata Devi,Assistant Professor,food science,nutrition and diet,department of Home Science from Imphal (Manipur) attended the camp as the appointed speaker.On the occasion, she spoke on menstruation & hygiene for young girls and married women. She also spoke on taboos and practices of social evils in rural areas.She further explained on menstruation and its consequences in later life. Bimolata Devi gave stress on self-care,eating of nutritious foods in daily diet specially during menstrual cycle.She requested woman to give priority to girls education. Another lady Rhondini Kikon working on developmental studies at the International Institute of Social Studies in Netherlands spoke on the issues of human trafficking and ill effect of migration.All the women workers and adolescent girls interacted with the visiting ladies during the session.
