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Goa To Start “Pink Rickshaws” For Women Drivers To Open Self-Employment

As per the latest reports, the Goa government is good to go to begin its armada of ladies driver-worked auto carts, called the ‘Pink Rickshaw’, to open up independent work roads for ladies, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Friday.

Addressing reporters at his official residence, Sawant likewise said that the principal armada of the Pink Rickshaw drive will include 14 ladies drivers, adding that the state government had joined forces with the Rotary club for the drive.

“In future, there is one Rotary club project. Very much like the Pink Force, there is the Pink Rickshaw project which the Rotary club is embraced with the assistance of the Goa government’s EDC (Economic Development Corporation). Seventeen ladies are being prepared,” he said.

While the EDC is an administration office which dispenses credits for little and huge organizations in the express, the Pink Force which the Chief Minister referenced, alludes to police units pointed toward managing wrongdoings against ladies.

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“The Pink Rickshaws can be assumed credit by means of CMRY (Chief Minister’s Rozgar Yojana) and sponsorship through Rotary club, which will likewise direct preparation. Those Pink Rickshaws will likewise be seen in the city of Goa,” Sawant said.

“Pink Rickshaws are for independently employed ladies who approach to drive carts. They will get carts on sponsorship by means of EDC.”

Meanwhile, in another update, In wake of rising cases of COVID-19, the Goa government on Wednesday encouraged residents to keep wearing face masks and follow Covid proper way of behaving.

“Government wants that taking into account the arising Coivid circumstance the nation over, every one of the residents be encouraged to keep wearing face masks at every single public spot and furthermore to keep seeing all Covid fitting way of behaving as a significant preventive measure,” read the warning of the state Public Health Department.

As per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, there are at present 27 dynamic Covid cases in Goa. Up to this point 3,832 individuals have kicked the bucket because of the infection in Goa.

Prior on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a gathering with the Chief Ministers of all states by means of video conferencing to survey the COVID-19 circumstance in the midst of the flood in the Covid cases in the country.

Head of the state pushed on the execution of ‘test, track and treat’ with a similar viability as it was finished during the previous Covid waves in the country.

 

 

 

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