Women from the weaker sections of the society have not only faced the crisis of livelihood and employment, but they also have to face the constraints of the patriarchal social system. In this situation, the need was felt for such a women’s livelihood program, which connects women to technology-based employment and helps them to move towards socio-economic justice. Samaan Society is working in this direction for the last three years. Under the program presented in this series, an attempt was made to connect women with the employment of bike mechanics.

Women have been trained as mechanics in Indore with the aim of furthering the process of social change by linking women with non-traditional livelihoods. As evident, the bike mechanic work has been dominated by men so far over skill and employment. All the garage repairing bikes are operated solely by men and their men are mechanics. In Indore, for the first time, a garage operated by a women mechanic has been started by the Samaan Society.