The system of keeping the girl/women away from home in a chaugoth or cow's shed during their menstruation is called chhaupadi pratha. It is a form of menstrual taboo which prohibits Hindu women and girls from participating in normal family activities while menstruating, as they are considered "impure". During chhaupadi, women are banned from the house and are made to live in a cattle shed for the the duration of their period. women are kept in the chhau goth for 13 days during their first period and for 5–7 days of each month during menstruation for the rest of their lives. It is mostly practiced in few hilly districts of Far Western Nepal.

The problems and effects of Chhaupadi pratha:

• Girls often live in fear as well as physical pain and discomfort.
• They feel mentally and physically disturbed.
• Women are barred from consuming milk, yogurt, butter, meat, and other nutritious food.
• Women are at risk of developing illnesses such as pneumonia diarrhea, dysentery.
• They are deprived from vitamin and nutritious food.
• They do not get love, care and help from their family member.
• They even lose their life because of cold and severe bleeding.
• They have risk of of deaths include snake bites and wild animal attacks.
•  Chhaupadi also leads to genital infections.
• They felt in depression, anxiety, suffocation.
• They also became the victim of rape as well as in that dark chhau goth because of open door.