Stree Swabhiman’ is an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITY).

• The initiative is aimed to create a sustainable model for providing adolescent girls and women access to affordable sanitary products by leveraging Common Service Centers (CSCs).
• This initiative will improve menstrual health and awareness on menstrual health and hygiene of women.
• The initiative will also result into employment of women as under the initiative semi-automatic and manual sanitary napkin manufacturing units will be set up at CSC for producing affordable and eco-friendly sanitary napkins.

These micro manufacturing units will be operated by women entrepreneurs and generate employment for 8-10 women. It is also important to understand that Common Service Centres or CSCs are ICT enabled front end service delivery points at the village level for delivery of government and private services and are strategic cornerstones of digital India programme.