Chhattisgarh: Kovind takes ride in tribal woman's e-rickshaw
Raipur, July 25 : President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday took a ride in a tribal woman-driven e-rickshaw in Chhattisgarh's Maoist-affected Dantewada and had lunch with children from a nearby village.
The e-rickshaw driver, Phoolmati Bhaskar, is a member of a women's cooperative in Teknagar village.
Kovind appreciated state government's initiatives to make tribal women independent by supporting women cooperatives, including the e-rickshaw project.
He appreciated the project not only from the point of view of woman independence but also from the environmental point of view.
After this, he went to Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram in Hiranagar village to have lunch with the children there and prayed with them before taking the meal.
The President also inaugurated a computer lab there and distributed sweets, which he had brought from the Rashtrapati Bhavan, among the children.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh accompanied the President to both places.
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
