Gandhinagar. Jyoti Kumari Tarvi, 35, a resident of Kevadiya (Kevadiya, Narmada District, Gujarat) of Narmada district in Gujarat, is a tribal woman and she drives an e-autorickshaw. Jyoti smiles and says, ‘I drive both e-rickshaw and home.’ About 60 women like Jyoti drive e-rickshaw near the country’s first green energy certified Ektanagar Railway Station. All these are women living in and around Kevadiya. It is noteworthy that the name of Ektanagar railway station was earlier Kevadiya railway station. The name of this station was changed after Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s Statue of Unity was made.
Won ‘humiliated life’ before 2021 If you get down at Ektanagar railway station to visit the ‘Statue of Unity’, you will see all these women with their e-rickshaws in the station premises and you go to see the world’s largest statue in their rickshaw. can. Like Jyoti, 25-year-old Pratima Kumari is also a tribal girl from Kevadia village, who drives an e-rickshaw. Pratima says, ‘Before 2021, the tribal women here were leading a humiliating life. But now there is no beginning. We earn from 1 thousand to 14 hundred rupees in a day. After paying the fare of the e-rickshaw, we take 7 hundred to 11 hundred rupees to our house.
How did the change come about? Rahul Patel, the spokesperson of the Statue of Unity Management, says, “These women from nearby villages, after being trained at the government-run Ektanagar Skill Development Center, are earning money by driving e-rickshaws. All these are women from very poor families. There is a plan to formally train more than 260 tribal women in driving. These women not only make the travelers visit the Statue of Unity, but also give information about other important places around. landscape has changed
Rahul Patel said that since October 31, 2018, more than 75 lakh tourists including foreigners have come here. Most of these tourists have enjoyed traveling on these e-rickshaws run by women. After the establishment of the Statue of Unity, the entire landscape of the area has changed.
