All-Women rail station, a first of its in kind

     An all-women railway station being launched at Phirangipuram shortly will be a big step in addressing gender equality in the biggest public sector organisation in the country.

The railway station on the Guntur-Narsaraopet line would be handed over to an all-women crew – from the station master to the signalling staff to the ticket-checking employees.

Only the third-of-its-kind railway station in the country after Jaipur’s Gandhi Nagar and Mumbai’s Matunga, the all-women station is set to create history.

“Yes, the Indian Railways are for empowerment of women. By handing over a railway station to women, we are showing the potential of women to function in diverse fields,” Divisional Railway Manager, Guntur, V.G Bhooma, told The Hindu on Thursday.

Ms. Bhooma launched a sanitary napkin vending machine and incinerator on Platform No. 1 on the premises of the railway station here. Users need to drop in a ?5 coin in the machine.