Women-on-Wheels

Official tells applicant that motorcycle licences are not issued to females

For a relatively affordable fee, any woman can board the toilet to use the facilities

Facility to provide motorbikes on loan apparently put on hold

Move aims to enable movement of women without depending on male family members

Unite initiated Women-on-Wheels campaign to empower women

Women have also undergone a free motorcycle riding training

WOW trainees participating include women from a variety of age brackets, belonging to a variety of professions

Around 40,000 more women will get training in the coming months

Rights activists say motorcycles do not offer ‘decent’ riding position

Punjab govt to provide Rs90 million subsidy for Women on Wheels project.

The performances were followed by an interactive session with the audience to hear their views

Rally will begin after training, registration process is completed

Law Minister Rana Sanaullah urges women to play an active role for country’s development

Women on Wheels campaign amounts to women challenging en masse the public-private divide

Idea that Women on Wheels scheme is effort to ‘follow the West’ and breaks the family value system is preposterous

Foreign envoys, ministers attend event

The initiative has been conceived by the CM’s SMU