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Zero 21 Renewable Energy Solutions, a startup in Hyderabad founded by ex-Tesla employee Rani Srinivas, makes affordable electric kits to convert old petrol/CNG autorickshaws in 3 hours.

Malti started driving an autorickshaw in Lucknow in 2013 when there was no other woman doing this job. Here’s the story of how she reached this point in her life.

Ankita believes that everyone has the strength to fight against challenges, and move forward. It’s this belief that encouraged her even after she was rejected at multiple job interviews and had to take up odd jobs.

“I primarily work on two kinds of bottles; one is the upright bottle, in which we insert an LED light and the second one is one in which the bottle is inverted. This inverted bottle comes with a wooden stand, and that wood is also waste wood. All in all, we try and use all the discarded materials to put this together.”

“Everything changed after Maya came into my life. My journey to being an extrovert started there.”

Without giving it a second thought, he slammed his rickshaw into the robbers’ two-wheeler, the impact of which led them to fall on the road.

Shila Dawre shut all these stereotypes down when she became India’s first woman auto driver. Rubbing shoulders with khaki-clad men driving rickshaws, clad in her regular salwaar kameez, she drove around the lanes of Pune, owning them.

While he regrets not being able to go to school, he doesn't want well-deserving students to miss out on their education due to poverty.

With the second phase of the odd-even ruling in Delhi underway, here's a list of apps and websites that can make the commute from home to work and back much simpler, hassle-free, and eco-friendly.