JANASENA Posted April 18, 2015 Report Posted April 18, 2015 A move that can be called a major step towards empowering women, the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) has appointed a 30-year-old woman from Telangana as its first female driver. Introducing the driver, Venkadarath Saritha, the Delhi Transport and Rural Development minister called it a new beginning and said that the department would appreciate if more women come forward to accept the challenge. Currently, there are 8,544 men on the rolls of DTC as drivers with another 4,500working on contract basis. Besides, the public carrier has about 243 female conductors, but no woman driver. Ms. Saritha, who moved from Nalgonda district to Hyderabad to New Delhi four years ago, was selected from among seven women candidates who had applied for the post in response to a DTC advertisement. Sharing her story of grit, determination and struggle against odds, the newly inducted woman driver told media persons that she took up auto-rickshaw driving 10 years ago because of financial problems in the family following her father’s prolonged illness. “As the youngest among five sisters, I took it as a challenge to financially support my family,” said Ms. Saritha. She later found a job at Holy Mary College, where she drove buses to ferry students. Ms. Saritha will report for duty at Sarojini Nagar Depot on Monday, after which she is likely to be on day-time bus driving assignments. She said she would take special care of women passengers travelling in her bus and abide by all traffic rules and regulations.
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