Sunita Chaudhary

Sunita Chaudhary is Delhi's first female auto rickshaw driver among 55,000 male colleagues.

Raised in a village near Meerut in the state of Uttar Pradesh and married there at the age of 12, she fled pregnant to an orphanage in Delhi after being mistreated and attempted murder at the age of 14. Their child, who was born there two months later, died. The following years she worked as a cleaning lady and in a health center. After they had taken to the hospital as a passenger of an autorickshaw an injured person from the street, she had the idea of himself as a small train to work -Fahrerin.

After many bureaucratic difficulties, she received her license and initially drove a rented rickshaw, for which she had to spend three quarters of her daily earnings. A loan and grant program in 2010 enabled her to purchase her own vehicle. A driving school founded by her should give other women the same opportunity to earn money.

In 2003 she ran for the Parliament ( Vidhan Sabha ) of Delhi, 2012 for the election for Vice President of India and 2014 for the election for Lok Sabha .

Web links

• One woman among 60,000 men , report in ARD Weltspiegel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andrew Buncombe: Sunita Choudhary: From her rickshaw to a seat of real power , The Independent, July 20, 2012, accessed June 30, 2013.
2. ↑ Amrit Dhillon: No easy ride for Delhi's redeemer of the poor , The Age, May 9, 2009, accessed June 30, 2013 (English).
3. ↑ Michael Radunski: Move forward to Connaught Place , faz.net of May 24, 2013, accessed on June 30, 2013.
4. ↑ Geeta Pandey: Taxi driver: Delhi , BBC News of August 9, 2004, accessed June 30, 2013 (English).
5. ↑ Divya Dugar: Taking a ride with Sunita Choudhary, North India's first female auto rickshaw taxi driver , CNN Travel, September 18, 2012, accessed June 30, 2013.
6. ↑ India's staggered election gets under way , Radio Australia April 7, 2014, accessed May 25, 2014.