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Woman Driver Takes President Kovind Around On Her E-Rickshaw

Darpan News Desk IANS, 25 Jul, 2018 12:06 PM
    President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday took a ride on E-rickshaw driven by a tribal woman in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada and had lunch with children from a nearby village.
     
     
    The E-rickshaw driver, Phoolmati Bhaskar, is a member of a women's cooperative in Teknagar village. 
     
     
    President Kovind appreciated state government's initiatives to make tribal women independent by supporting cooperatives, including the E-rickshaw project. He appreciated the project for being environment-friendly
     
    He then went to Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram in Hiranagar village to have lunch with the children there and prayed with them before taking the meal.
     
     
    The President also inaugurated a computer lab there and distributed sweets, which he had brought from the Rashtrapati Bhavan, among the children.
     
     
    Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh accompanied the President to both places.

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