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Girls at schools run by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) have been deprived of free sanitary napkins since last one year as the civic body has failed to okay supplier due to politics over allotting the contract, alleged the Congress.S)..
On Wednesday, the Congress jumped into the controversy alleging that due to political pressure, PMC has not been able to float tenders for sanitary napkins, which eventually could not be procured and distributed among girls from civic-run schools..
The civic body has approved 1 crore for distributing napkins in 2023-24..
Addressing a media meet, Congress city unit president Arvind Shinde said, Due to interference from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena, the civic administration was not able to complete the tendering process..
The Opposition party demanded municipal commissioner Vikram Kumar and the state government to examine letters written for the tendering process by the civic administration..
