Gallery: Meet the Pioneering Female Cabbies Who Are Transforming India's Roads
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Twenty-three-year-old Seema laughs during a driving exercise organized for young trainees at a park in southern New Delhi. Seema has been a professional taxi driver for the past five years, and many in her local community still do not accept that she works as a taxi driver.
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An awareness campaign worker engages local residents at the Laxmi-Nagar slum in East Delhi.
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Chand teaches a virtual simulation class at the Maruti Academy in Jaipur. The 35-year-old woman is a widowed Muslim mother with three children. She became a taxi driver to improve her life and now works as a driving instructor.
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Twenty-eight-year-old Pushpa tries to park the car within the red cones during a reverse parking exercise in southern New Delhi.
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Hemlata changes a flat tire as part of a professional driving workshop on the outskirts of New Delhi.
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Twenty-one-year-old Geeta poses outside Women on Wheels’ headquarters in New Delhi.
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Fellow drivers at a traffic light ask 19-year-old Meenu why she’s driving.
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Two sisters, Beena and Hemlata, change the tire of a car as part of a professional driving workshop in Jaipur.
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A student participates in a self-defense course in Jaipur.
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A colorful house outside Jaipur features the name of a Women on Wheels driver.
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A girl sits with her family in an interview with Women on Wheels. She hopes to join the program.
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Twenty-one-year-old Geeta drives Azad Foundation staff around Delhi.
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Hemlata changes a flat tire as part of a driving workshop outside New Delhi.
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Pooja chauffeurs a female client during her night shift.
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A portrait of 19-year-old Meenu at the home of her grandparents in Jaipur.
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Twenty-eight-year-old Pushpa shows her driving license. Before acquiring a license, many women in the program lack official documents like ID cards.
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Twenty-eight-year-old Pushpa attempts to remove a flat tire while training in southern New Delhi.
