On "Want Condoms?" Remark To Schoolgirl, Women Panel Notice To Bihar Officer
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Harjot Kaur Bhamra, who heads Bihar Women and Child Development Corporation, has to reply within seven days, says National Commission for Women
The National Commission for Women (NCW) has sought an explanation from the Bihar IAS officer who told a schoolgirl "you'd want condoms too" after she asked if the government could make sanitary pads more widely available.
The officer — Harjot Kaur Bhamra, Managing Director of the Bihar Women and Child Development Corporation — has to reply within seven days, the NCW said today. She had yesterday said her remarks at an event on Tuesday were misreported and that, being a woman, she has been working against gender discrimination.
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