How does the author show that cycling is linked to the literacy movement in the district?ORHow did Sheela Rani Chunkath empower the women of Pudukkottai by including cycling in the literacy drive?

How does the author show that cycling is linked to the literacy moveme

1.	How does the author show that cycling is linked to the literacy movement in the district?ORHow did Sheela Rani Chunkath empower the women of Pudukkottai by including cycling in the literacy drive?
Answer» Sheela Rani Chunkath was the district collector of Pudukkottai in 1991. As a part of the female literacy drive, she wanted to train female literacy activists so that literacy would reach women in the interior. She had realized that the lack of mobility among women played a big role in undermining their confidence. Therefore, she included ‘mobility’ as a part of the literacy drive. Naturally, literacy activists learned cycling first. This inspired the neo-literates also to learn cycling. This, in turn, inspired every woman in the village to learn cycling. The literates, having become neo-cyclists, encouraged every woman in the district to learn cycling by organizing ‘cycle training camps’. Thus, cycling came to be linked to the literacy movement in Pudukkottai.