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Founder of Asia's first women taxi service Revathi Roy wins Women Transforming India award

Founder of Asia's first women taxi service Revathi Roy wins Women Transforming India award

India Blooms News Service | | 16 Sep 2016, 05:09 pm
Mumbai, Sep 16 (IBNS): Revathi Roy, who started Asia’s 1st ever women taxi service, FORSCHE, in 2007, won the “Women Transforming India” award instituted by NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India).

A social entrepreneur, Revathi Roy, CEO, HeyDidi and founder of Zaffiro Learning, has been working in the field of women’s empowerment for close to a decade and is currently helping women expand their skills for better employability in the logistics sector.

The NITI Aayog is a Government of India policy think-tank established in 2015 to foster involvement and participation in the economic policy-making process by the state governments of India. The Prime Minister serves as the Ex-officio chairman.

Revathi Roy is keen to help the hardworking but uneducated urban poor women to elevate their status and give them access to  a predominantly male domain.

She seeks to financially empower girls from BPL families to own their own vehicles and earn income through delivery services, in tandem with the growing e-commerce space and its demand for effective logistics.

Roy has trained more than a thousand girls to drive cars with the aim of taking up commercial driving as a profession, thereby making travel for women travelers’ safe, even at night.

Zaffiro Learning trains girls to ride scooters and provide instant parcel service on the HeyDidi Platform. 

HeyDidi is a platform focused on providing any sort of delivery starting from food, medical reports to even groceries, by downloading an app on the mobile phone.

It was launched by HeyTaxi on International Women’s Day as HeyTaxi’s women’s empowerment initiative, becoming the first all-woman delivery service.

Zaffiro provides these women with the skills and training to be licensed drivers, helps to procure the vehicle, and places them on the job.

Recently, they have tied-up with Amazon (Bangalore), Pizza Hut , Subway, EGK , and others as a part of their women employability programme.

Zaffiro Learning has been empanelled as a VTP with Maharashtra State Skill Development Society (MSSDS) and hence will be a part of the skill development initiatives set up by the state.

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