Another week, another roundup of Women Entrepreneur India. This roundup of news stories features stories such as Delhi Lieutenant Governor Introducing a Training Program for Female Cab Drivers, HBT Opening a Community Digital Learning Center to Close the Digital Divide, Zoya Agarwal Becoming First Female Indian Pilot Honored at Museum in US, and many more. In addition to these stories, we have also covered a number of additional ones about the empowerment of women. Discover some of the most important strides achieved this week toward women's empowerment by reading on.
Delhi Lt.G Introduces a Training Program for Female Cab Drivers
On Monday, Delhi Lt. Governor V K Saxena announced the start of a training programme for 50 female cab drivers in an effort to boost the proportion of female drivers in the city's public transportation system. The LG also signalled the departure of 40 electric taxis driven by women. At the occasion conducted at the Institute of Driving and Traffic Research (IDTR) in Sarai Kale Khan, key authorities like East Delhi BJP MP Gautam Gambhir, Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar, and others were in attendance.
The move, according to an official statement, is intended to increase the proportion of women drivers in Delhi's public transportation sector and to ensure the safety of female passengers.
HBT opens a Community Digital Learning Center to close the Digital Divide
The HumaraBachpan Trust opened the second Community Digital Learning Center on Monday in the Durgamadhab neighbourhood of Bhubaneswar in honour of Independence Day, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared the new vision of India to create the technology-driven age, or "techade," and bring digital India to the grassroots.
The first digital learning centre was established in OUAT Farmgatebasti, Bhubaneswar, serving 37 adolescent girls and roughly 55 youngsters from the neighbourhood. Children and youth in the neighbourhood have access to digital devices through the digital learning centre, where they may also learn how to use applications, access the internet, and look for and apply to career and skill-building opportunities.
The community digital learning centres were established with the goal of promoting grassroots learning and creating networks of people who are digitally literate, which will promote Internet innovation and lessen gender disparities in the use of technology.
In 2023-24, Indian women's team to play Tests against Australia & England
The first-ever Women's Future Tours Programme (FTP), which encompasses all three game formats, was unveiled by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday. It confirms the bilateral international tours for 10 teams over the following three years.
"A result of a joint effort from Members, the FTP ensures more matches for teams with the enhancement of the ICC Women's Championship (IWC) to a 10-team event. With teams featuring in more matches across formats in bilateral series, over 300 matches will be played as part of the 2022-25 FTP," stated an official release.
In the years 2022 through 2025, a total of seven Tests are anticipated. In December 2023, India will play home to one Test match for each of England and Australia.
Priyanka Chopra gears up to host the Global Citizen Music Festival again in New York City
The Global Citizen Music Festival will once again be hosted by Priyanka Chopra in New York City. The actress recently released some images of herself in her role as the Global Citizen Festival ambassador as well as the festival's programme. The actress of Quantico recently revealed her enthusiasm about performing on stage for the first time with her musician husband Nick Jonas.
Prior to the music festival, Priyanka Chopra recently held an Instagram Live session. Hugh Evans, CEO of Global Citizen, joined the actor as they spoke on a range of topics, including the eradication of poverty, stopping the COVID-19 pandemic, empowering women, and the climate catastrophe.
Priyanka Chopra also disclosed that she would perform on stage alongside her husband for the first time during the session.
Indian Army launches programmes to Empower Women in border villages of Kashmir
The Indian Army has begun a number of programmes to improve the status of women in the border villages of North Kashmir's Kupwara region, which are near to the Line of Control.
In the district's isolated town of Dudi Macchil, dozens of women are receiving sanitary pad manufacturing training. There, a sanitary pad manufacturing facility has been established by an NGO and the Indian Army. These sanitary napkins are completely biodegradable and produced using low-tech equipment that women can run very fast.
Women from the hamlet who were trained in the production of pads and equipment maintenance underwent a thorough training programme. Women willingly participated in the training and successfully launched the production of sanitary pads.
Women's Commission Launches Study on the Plight of Hindu Women Refugees in Delhi's Majnu ka Tila
A research into the suffering of Hindu women and children who fled Pakistan and have been living in Majnu Ka Tila, Delhi, for the past few years has been started by the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW). The Commission will advise the administration on their rehabilitation.
Hindu refugees continue to live in appalling conditions in Delhi's Majnu Ka Tila, cut off from basic necessities like homes, water connections, power, toilets, and appropriate sources of income.
Many of the immigrants fled persecution in Pakistan, which included forced conversions, kidnappings, attacks on the faithful, and sexual assault, among other things. Every refugee family has a horrible story to tell and has gone through a lot of hardship.
Risham is Reviving the Ancient Bead-Weaving Technique through Fashion Jewellery
Bead weaving, an age-old technique used primarily to make dolls and vases, is finding a new avatar. Risham, the Bangalore-based, hand-crafted contemporary jewellery line enhancing self-expression among Indian women. Srutiza Mohanty, the founder of Risham,took it upon herself to revive the age-old bead weaving thatexpert artisans have carefully preserved for thousands of years. She has now carefully transitioned the entire technique into costume jewellery by adding hercreative twist.
The complex, unique and captivating patterns created through this art form caught the fancy of Srutiza when she had a flourishing career as a software engineer.Her passion for unique hand-made and ancient art-inspired jewellery reflects in every piece of jewellery.
Zoya Agarwal becomes First Female Indian Pilot to be honoured at a Museum in the United States
Captain Zoya Agarwal, a senior Air India pilot operating a Boeing 777, made aviation history as the first Indian woman to fly an aircraft above the North Pole and travel a record-breaking distance of almost 16,000 kilometres. She now has a seat in the SFO aviation museum. In 2021, an all-female Flight India pilot team led by Zoya Agarwal completed the first flight across the North Pole on the world's longest air route between San Francisco (SFO) in the United States and Bengaluru in India.
The accomplishments of all of Air India's female pilots pleased the US-based aviation museum, and as a result, they provided a space in their collection.
In an interview, Captain Zoya Agarwal revealed that the San Francisco Aviation Luis A Turpen Aviation museum, often known as the SFO Aviation Museum, has never employed a human as a pilot.
