Delhi: IRS officer turns ‘pad woman’ amid corona crisis

NEW DELHI: An IRS officer, Aman Preet, turned into a “pad woman” for about 10 lakh women from 17 states of the country who had no access to sanitary pads during the lockdown. With neighbourhood shops closed, many girls and women found it difficult to buy the pads.
Aman Preet relentlessly worked towards improving the standard of sanitation for the women and reached out to them with the help of various social organisations, NGOs and good Samaritans. Working in Delhi as a joint commissioner of income tax, the 2010-batch officer earlier found out that almost 50 per cent of the women were not using sanitary pads. With the support of her batchmates, friends and Sangini Saheli trust, she was subsequently able to distribute around 12 lakh sanitary pads across India.

“Taking care of personal and menstrual hygiene is a key factor in the fight against the novel coronavirus,” says Aman Preet who was born and brought up in Ludhiana, Punjab.

Aman Preet has also been an integral part of the Covid response team constituted by Income Tax officers to help the needy department staff and persons related to them in case of medical and other emergencies.