Kathmandu: A Nepal official has launched a mission to end an ancient tradition which forces menstruating women to stay in rudimentary shelters, following an incident this month when a woman and her two children were found dead in such a hut in Bajura district.
“The practice of ‘chhaupadi’ is an ill religious practice that has killed many women. This deeply entrenched belief should be ended now,” Shristi Regmi, Deputy Mayor of Budinanda Municipality in Bajura district, around 720 km west of Kathmandu, told Efe news. (IANS)