After her husband’s cancer diagnosis, Sarika Santosh Mestry, 34, decided it was now on her to run her household while tending to her husband and two daughters. 

“I got talking to an autorickshaw driver, who told me he made a decent living,” said Mestry, who underwent a 15-day training course at the Regional Transport Office.

How she would afford getting her own autorickshaw was another matter altogether. As it turns out, it was a serendipitous meeting that brought Mestry her very own rickshaw as a Rakshabandhan gift.