She rode a state-provided bicycle for two hours every day, six days a week, from her residence to the school where she coached classes and back.
“I doubt I could have completed high school if I hadn’t had a cycle. The 27-year-old Nibha says, “It changed my life.”
Nibha, a farmer’s daughter from the Begusarai district, was brought to live with her aunt 10 kilometers (six miles) away so that she could go to a primary school nearby. Girls found it difficult to move about, and public transportation was erratic.
Nibha rode her bike along the unpaved village roads when she came home for high school.
Girls who started riding bicycles to school and coaching classes have become much more confident. These days, an increasing number of them attend school. According to Begusarai health worker Bhuvaneshwari Kumari, “the majority of them have free bicycles.”
