Taxi service only for women on the anvil of New Delhi Municipal Corporation

#NDMC #childmolestation #womensafety #internationalwomensday In order to make the city of New Delhi more safe for women because of instances of atrocities committed on women, the New Delhi Municipal Corporation has taken a decision to operate a women only taxi service where the drivers would be women.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 16 March 2015.
The service named ‘Shakti’ had been scheduled to begin on 8 March, International Women’s Day but due to shortage of cabs, it has been postponed to April- it seems a minimum of 100 cabs are necessary for launching such projects but the NDMC has hardly 20 cabs. Therefore, a pilot project would be started with these 20 cabs.
This rivers of this women only cab service will be women drivers and they would be recruited from the technical institute run by NDMC. The tariffs are likely to be in sync with the transport department rates.
Moreover, keeping the safety of school children in mind, NDMC would be recruiting women drivers for all the buses that carry children to the schools run by it. This is because children are easy targets for crimes such as molestation.
Hence, women drivers who possess commercial licenses have already been selected and they would begin working from next month.

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