After Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday praised women e-rickshaw drivers of Dantewada in his radio address, Mann Ki Baat, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh described his Government's initiative of empowering the women of insurgency-riddled Dantewada district through e-rickshaw training Rs a model for the nation'.
"We gave training and solar rickshaws to 25 women, who helped transport system even in remote areas. It's a model for the nation that women are helping people commute to such dangerous places,'' Singh told reporters at the concluding ceremony of the National Agriculture Fair in Raipur.
Singh also extended his congratulations to the Collector of Dantewada and his whole team after Modi praised the women power of the tribal e-rickshaw women drivers of Naxal-hit Dantewada, in his monthly radio address.
In October 2017, women drivers hit the roads of country's one of the worst leftist insurgency-hit Dantewada districts with e-rickshaws, which is being defined as the beginning of making women feel empowered in sprawling Bastar region, a Maoist bastion for decades.