Defying stereotypes, Telangana woman becomes earthmover operator

A 33-year-old pistillate from Yerragollapahad colony successful Jangaon territory has challenged long-held sex stereotypes by taking up the occupation of an earthmover operator, a assemblage traditionally seen arsenic a antheral preserve, acknowledgment to the enactment from her section Self-Help Group (SHG) nether the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP).

Palamakula Aruna faced respective hardships aboriginal successful life, losing her begetter portion she was studying successful Class 10. She got joined successful 2012 but received small enactment from her ain household and in-laws. The young couple’s aboriginal years were marked by indebtedness and instability. While her hubby Palamakula Nagaraju worked arsenic an earthmover operator, Aruna supplemented the household income by moving arsenic an cultivation labourer and taking up tailoring work.

But alternatively of breaking nether pressure, she chose to emergence — a emergence that would yet spot her down the instrumentality of a dense instrumentality nary 1 ever expected her to operate.

In 2013, Aruna joined a Self-Help Group (SHG), a determination she present calls the turning constituent of her life. A twelvemonth later, she accessed a indebtedness of ₹1 lakh done her SHG, which helped her wide aged debts.

With her husband’s encouragement, she learned earthmover cognition aft rigorous grooming and yet mastered driving it successful 2024. The household present earns betwixt ₹4,000-5,000 a time from earthmover work.

Through the SHG, Aruna’s household has accessed a full of ₹22.10 lakh successful loans, enabling them to physique aggregate sources of income, including a container manufacturing unit.

Praising Aruna for her exceptional success, Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister Danasari Anasuya, amended known arsenic Seethakka, said, “I precocious met Aruna astatine a SERP programme. Her determination to go an earthmover relation is inspiring to each woman.”

Thanking SERP, Aruna said, “My puerility imagination of becoming an Anganwadi teacher has yet been fulfilled, not done a schoolroom but done leadership, empowerment and nationalist service. Without enactment from SERP, I would person remained a labourer.”