Jammu, Sep 19: Iron Lady on Wheels with a ‘Swachh Bharat’ mission reached here on Tuesday .
Sangeetha Sridhar, who has taken up the unique initiative of driving solo across the country to evaluate the impact of ‘Swachh Bharat Movement’, aims to take an audit of public toilet facilities and its functionality on highways and also endeavours to prepare a report on how safe it is for women to travel alone in India.
She will hand over the findings to the Ministry of Tourism, Swachh Bharat Mission an initiative of Govt of India under the leadership of the Prime Minister and United Nations Sustainable Development Board.
Ms Sridhar started her unique road trip from Gateway of India, Mumbai on Aug 12 in her modified SUV Tata Hexa and plans to cover a distance of 29,000 km through 310 cities across India, in a solo trip she calls ‘Clean India Trail’.
After driving for more than a month and covering several Indian states, she is all set to explore Jammu and Kashmir.
The traveller will be interacting many school children to motivate and inspire them to take up the clean India drive in earnest and to see their country as one unified family without any limits of borders and states.
