JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN: From the ticket authority to the station director, from the enquiry counter to the station master and even pointsman – it’s an all-ladies all the way at Jaipur’s Gandhinagar train station. Beginning today, every one of the tasks will be dealt with by the station’s staff of 40 ladies.
“The whole action on the railroad station will be overseen by ladies, that incorporates activities, which fundamentally implies working the board where you adjust the tracks as indicated by the course of the trains. At that point there are business activities like offering of tickets and ticket accumulation,” says Soumya Mathur, Divisional Railway Manager, Jaipur.
“The third significant capacity is security,” includes Ms Mathur, “so we will have woman constables watching the stages.
Truth be told, to help the all-ladies team, the Railway Protection Force, or RPF, has chosen to post 11 ladies police work force at the police headquarters joined to the railroad station.
What makes the Gandhinagar station novel is that it is on the principle line amongst Jaipur and Delhi. Twenty-five trains stop here every day, including top of the line visitor trains like Palace On Wheels and the Maharajas’ Express. Fifty trains pass the station every day, including fast ones like the Rajdhani and the Shatabdi. The station sees upwards of 7,000 travelers go through it every day.
In any case, the ladies who work at Gandhinagar railroad station say they are prepared for the test. They will work two eight-hour moves in revolution.
“Prepare development is my activity: which prepare is to be gotten on which track,” clarifies station ace Angel Stella as she waves a green banner to permit a passing merchandise prepare. “All trains are imperative to us whether traveler or products. The wellbeing of such a significant number of individuals relies upon us and products worth crores are transported via prepare, so our primary point is to encourage the sheltered development of trains.”