According to an announcement, female students at Sikkim University can take one day of menstruation leave every month. The Sikkim University Registrar, Laxuman Sharma, issued the notification on December 4 in response to the Sikkim University Students’ Association’s (SUSA) request last month.
“The Vice-Chancellor has been pleased to allow one-day menstrual leave per month for girl/women students of Sikkim University, except during university examinations,” stated the central university’s registrar.
The leave so availed shall be adjusted with the mandatory 75 per cent attendance criteria of the classes held in a semester for examination purposes, he said.
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