Driving an autorickshaw on Mumbai’s streets is no easy task. Quite a few women have broken into this male-dominated profession with confidence in recent years. Mid-day Online spoke to two women who ferry passengers in Bandra not only for the money but also for the independence it brings
Alka Jadhav and Tejashree Sawant have been driving their autorickshaws in Bandra East for the last four years. Photo: Alka Jadhav/Tejashree Sawant
Every morning, Alka Jadhav, an exuberant Bandra-based female autorickshaw driver wears her white coat and sets out to take passengers from Bandra East railway station to their destination from 9 am to 8 pm. She has been doing it for the last four years ever since she laid hands on the orange-coloured three-wheeler specially designated for women drivers in January 2018 . “In the mornings, I travel to BKC (Bandra Kurla Complex) to drop the passengers and in the evening, I drive around from Guru Nanak Hospital,” says the 33-year-old, who talks to us during her late lunch break. Jadhav believes in independence. It is something that she has firmly stood for ever since she got married in 2005 at a very young age.
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