Ladies Pourakarmikas present process coaching by Mangaluru Metropolis Company in Karavali Utsav grounds of Mangaluru on Sunday in use of e-autorickshaws for door-to-door waste assortment
| Photograph Credit score: H.S. Manjunath
Forty-year-old pourakarmika, Renuka Guddappa, has not stepped on to a bicycle or a two-wheeler thus far. She is now studying to trip the brand new e-autorikshaw of Mangaluru Metropolis Company, which has deliberate to permit ladies pourakarmikas use this car for door-to-door waste assortment.
“I’m studying since final one month. But to get used to strategies of working this new car,” stated Ms. Guddappa, a mom of two youngsters. “As I’ve not stepped on bicycle or every other two-wheeler in my life, there’s nonetheless nervousness in working this car independently,” she stated. Ms. Guddappa is taking a break from the work of eradicating roadside grass and attending coaching session.
Related is the story of grass cutters Rekha Isarnal and Asha Walikar, who’ve been attending coaching classes which can be recurrently being performed at Karavali Utsav floor and in Kavoor and Surathkal underneath supervision of MCC well being inspectors B.Okay. Arun Kumar, Kiran Giridhar, Sanjay and Ashwini.
As many as 15 ladies pourakarmika are present process e-autorickshaw driving coaching. Door-to-Door waste assortment supervisors Ajith, Litesh, Subash and Satish are giving the coaching. In one other 30 days these ladies are prone to begin accumulating rubbish utilizing e-autorickshaw.
Below Swachh Bharath Mission, MCC has been given 24 e-autorickshaws, 107 hydraulic jeep tippers, 30 tipper truck and, 16 compactors for home waste assortment.
MCC Commissioner C.L. Anand stated not too long ago he learn report about ladies working autorickshaw within the metropolis. “This impressed me to coach choose ladies pourakarmikas, who’re in huge quantity, in working the e-autorickhaw. Via this we need to empower these ladies and assist them elevate their dignity,” Mr. Anand stated. The MCC intends to coach make extra ladies pourakarmikas in operation of e-autorickshaws, he stated.
Mr. Kumar stated these ladies will probably be working the autorickshaws in slender roads of the town the place jeep tippers can not go. Initially two ladies will probably be these autos. As they get used to it, these ladies will probably be allowed to function independently. These ladies have already got Leaners Licence and driving licence will probably be taken earlier than they begin rubbish assortment, he stated.
Pleased over the initiative of MCC, pourakarmika Dyamavva stated ladies are surging forward in lots of fields. Ladies are working rubbish assortment autos in some villages of Dakshina Kannada. “It’s problem to make use of this car to gather waste within the undulating terrain of metropolis. We hope to beat it,” Ms. Dyamavva stated.
