Condom machines for Delhi – City can make good life
Written by admin on June 28th, 2008New Delhi: one of the popular news papers in Delhi, Times of India publishes news of installing the condom vending machines in all over the India capital. According to this news, the MCD is about to setup the 2,000 brightly- colored condom machines at public places ( example- cinema halls, community toilets, shopping centers, petrol pumps, hospitals and even offices). This is the first step to make aware about STD (Simple Transmitted Diseases). MCD believes that this project will do good and positive response will come in the city.
If this project will perform according to the set standards, MCD will install more condoms machines in capital.
Actually it is the best solution to make aware about STDs and HIV-AIDS to people, who are too shy and they can take benefits of this kind of machines in just Rs. 5/- per packet cost. These machines will well stocked by 82 active NGO’s in Delhi city.
This step is very necessary to be successes because only 6% Indian are currently using condoms as family planning or controlling sex diseases. A Central Government year-2006 survey tells that only 42% of Indian males use condoms with non-regular partners. This percentage goes down in case of casual sex; it is only 3.4% in Bihar and maximum in Punjab with 69.3%.
These machines are already installed in Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand states. These states were considered in Phase-I of this kind of condoms machines installation. Now in second phase the metro cities are being considered and around 11,000 machines will installed in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. In Delhi these machines are being installed in Secretariat, RML Hospital, Nirman Bhawan and Delhi University Areas.