![]() The heckling is countered by the warm appreciation of female passengers. “Look at that, now they’re taking our jobs too when they barely know their left from their right,” they laughed. While standing at a traffic light, two male drivers spot Maurya and jeer. “It’s easy for male drivers, they just stop and pee on the roadside, but for me it’s always a choice between drinking water because I’m thirsty or not drinking it to avoid going to the loo,” said Maurya.Īnd then there are boorish male rickshaw drivers who give them grief. The e-rickshaw itself is a flimsy contraption on three wheels with no safety belts or protection and exposed to the fumes of other vehicles.ĭolly Maurya, 26, another driver, is in Saket near the Select City Walk shopping mall, drenched in sweat in the 42-degree April heat.įor a woman, as the hours go by, finding a public toilet is not easy. The din of honking and the Darwinian rules that determine who has right of way on Indian roads (it’s the bigger vehicle, so buses and trucks are king) make driving stressful. ![]() Her e-rickshaw was subsidised by the Delhi state government, which has launched a fleet of 3,500 e-rickshaws – painted a sickly lilac rather than the standard yellow and green – and earmarked 500 for women. If women are scared, how will we make progress?” I am not scared at all of being on the roads. “He thought male passengers would flirt with me or harass me. ![]() “My father drives an autorickshaw, but he initially opposed me,” Devi said. ![]()
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