LUCKNOW: In 2018, 45-year-old Sushila was selling eggs to support her family of 11. On a whim, she approached a person in her colony in Prayagraj to help her purchase an e-rickshaw. Three years down the line, the grandmother of two can be seen at the Prayagraj railway station during the early morning hours, ferrying passengers across the city and saying that she has never felt more liberated. Sushila is one of 80 women who have been empowered across the three cities of Prayagraj, Varanasi and Lucknow to break into what has traditionally been a male dominated field: driving e-rickshaws. Helping them into the profession is a startup, SMV Green Solutions, which started the project with three main agendas — empowerment of women; promotion of green transport, and providing safe public transport for women.