Even at school, the girl student is suspended for 6 days

There are 66 students in this school, which teaches up to five classes, 36 of them are girls and 30 are boys. Although the number of female students in the school is more, they are forbidden to come to school during menstruation. Principal Durga Bohora admits that there is a social taboo against coming to school during menstruation. She claims that her period has stopped but another teacher who teaches there comes during her period.

Mansara Timilsaina, a former student of Saraswati Basic School, said that she also faced the problem of not being able to go to school during menstruation. No one goes to school during menstruation. It is believed that if you feel like a god, you will suffer until later. As the elders of the society say that the lives of their daughters will be ruined, no one can go because of fear," she said. Almost everyone in the society is united against us.'

Class 5 student Kamala Timilsaina says, 'One sister has not come to school for a long time. Hariprasad Timilsaina, the chairman of the school management committee, said that because he does not come 6 days a month because of menstruation and other times because of family problems, he has left school. . "Earlier the school was above, the land donor gave the land where the temple is, so we moved it down," he said He insisted that there is no option to accept the custom as the situation is not there.

Rita Dhakal, a member of Kuika-based children's club, complained on behalf of the club to raise public awareness and improve the environment for going to school during menstruation, but he did not comply.

"We have repeatedly asked the ward president to facilitate this matter since the girls' studies are interrupted during menstruation, but he also did not show interest," she said. He also believes that going to school when he is menstruating will make him feel better.

Ward President Durga Prasad Timilsaina admits that girls do not go to school when they are menstruating. "There has always been a problem of female students not going to school when they are menstruating. After I was elected as the ward president, there was a discussion about gathering everyone and going to school," he said. ;

55-year-old Bohora, who is the principal, has been teaching at this place for 29 years. When Achham came from Kailali for a job 29 years ago, he had to live in the neighborhood for a long time. "Earlier, in this place, during menstruation, it was denied to go to school to teach. I started teaching at the risk that I will take responsibility for whatever problems arise because of God. At that time I could change myself. The society could not be changed until now,' she said, 'I stayed unmarried for my own reasons, but the local people here still tell me that I did not get married because I went to school when I left.' She said that she had to face various charges. Jamuna madam also comes to school now when she is menstruating. "Students don't come," she said. They blame themselves for not coming, but none of the parents and students have the courage to apply it in practice.

She says that female students are unable to come to school when they are menstruating because of the fear of society and parents. "Rather than sending the students to school, the parents tell us that if something happens to our daughter, you will take charge of it, and then we will send her," says Principal Bohora. You can't even take charge of other people's children. The community itself has stopped coming to school during menstruation.

13-year-old Dhurva Adhikari of Panchadeval Vinayak-2 studies in Class 9 of Vidya Mandir Mavi. She cannot sit and study after having her period while going to school. "Pads are given by the school, but there is no place to throw them after use. There is a lot of stress about where and how to throw away," she said. "There is a place to throw pads in the open, you can't easily throw them there."

"Students who have joined the children's club have spoken about such issues many times, but our voices are not heard," she said, "We understand issues such as menstruation, sexual and reproductive health after training in other places. But even general information about these subjects is not given in school.'

She said that studies are affected during menstruation. 'Five days in a month are spent in stress about how to change the pad, where to throw it, what to do with stomach ache,' she said Harikala Adhikari of Panchadeval Vinayak-3, who is studying in class 12 of Vidya Mandir High School, who had to be deprived, said. "First, the camp demolition campaign started, at that time, instead of staying at home, I had to hang a tripal," she said.

again they became close quarters. We are the victims of this.' Harikala says that the school girls' studies are affected because they have to stay in the barn all night and the school environment is not suitable for the whole day. "A student who stays in a shed all night and goes to study is also mentally weak," she said.

According to the 2080 report of the Center for Education and Human Development, 189,895 students have been enrolled in grades 9 to 12 in the Far West. Out of 97,205 female students, 2.4 percent of 9th to 10th grade students and 1.1 percent of 11th to 12th grade students drop out in a year. 2.5 percent of 9th and 10th grade and 5.3 percent of 11th and 12th grade are female students who repeat the grade again.

Jagat Rawal, Head of Education, Youth and Sports Branch of Mangalsen Municipality, said that due to poverty, illiteracy, superstition and wrong thinking that daughters should not be taught too much, many female students had to be deprived of education. The education of the students is not only affected, it has become weak. It seems difficult to improve the situation until the local level brings a concrete plan for this, he said.