Menstrual Hygiene and Social Sanctions (A Sociological study among the school going girl students in Borbam Tea garden of Assam)

This paper is an attempt to examine the menstrual health of School going Girl students in Tea community of Assam. This paper also tried to explore the knowledge of school going girl students about hygiene practices during menstruation for their quality life. The hygiene practices are mostly essential to girls/women for their reproductive health, but social taboos and other restrictions related to menstruation make obstacles for them to survive themselves with proper dignity as like their male counterpart. Therefore knowledge of girls‘ student about menstrual health and their experiences of using menstrual kits have been examined in this study. It is an empirical study and data have been collected from both primary and secondary sources through applying qualitative as well as quantitative research strategies. The data gives an interesting finding to meet the basic objectives of the study.