The government of Sindh on Friday distributed electric vehicle (EV) scooters among the women.
A ceremony was held in Sukkur on April 17 to distribute free electric scooters to women.
Addressing the ceremony, Provincial Minister for Information, Transport and Mass Transit, Sharjeel Inam Memon, said that Sindh was the first province in Pakistan to introduce EV buses and a pink bus service with female drivers and conductors.
He added that the concept of female drivers and conductors was not introduced in any other country earlier.
Sharjeel Memon said that the government of Sindh is providing free EV scooters to women along with helmets, licenses, and training, which is all free of cost.
Earlier in the province, there were only 150 women with motorbike licenses, but now there are more than 20,000 license applications by women across the province.
The provincial minister stated that women’s empowerment has always been the vision of the Chairman of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, and the first lady Bibi Aseefa Bhutto Zardari.
Memon said, “President Zardari started the Benazir Income Support Program. He said today, the IMF and the World Bank praise this program.”
He further added, “Sindh government is building houses for 2.1 million families free of cost under the housing project.”
Important political figures attended the ceremony named MNA Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, Provincial Minister for Local Government Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, Sindh Assembly Speaker Syed Awais Qadir Shah, Provincial Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla, Sindh Government Spokesperson and Mayor Sukkur Arslan Islam Shaikh, District Council Chairman Syed Kumail Hyder Shah, Syed Javed Shah, Deputy Mayor and PPP City President Dr. Arshad Mughal, Muhammad Qasim Siraj, Babal Khan Bhayo, M.D Mass Transit Kanwal Nizam Bhutto, vice chancellors of IBA, Aror, and Begum Nusrat Bhutto Universities, Commissioner Sukkur Abid Saleem Qureshi, Deputy Commissioner Sukkur Nadir Shehzad Khan, SSP Sukkur Azhar Mughal, Director Information Sukkur Ghulam Abbas Goraho and others.
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