New Delhi, June 23 -- Indus Towers, one of the world's largest telecom infrastructure companies, in partnership with Northern Railways, has installed 500 sanitary napkin vending machines under its CSR program, Nari Samman, the release said.

Deployed across 175 railway stations in the Delhi, Firozpur, Ambala, Moradabad and Lucknow divisions, the machines are equipped with IoT-enabled monitoring and have dispensed approximately 3 crore sanitary napkins to date. The initiative ensures round-the-clock availability and free access to sanitary napkins for women travellers.

The Nari Samman program is implemented under Indus Towers' flagship CSR initiative, Pragati, which focuses on building a sustainable ecosystem of awareness, access, and com...