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MTC to recruit women drivers and conductors

P. Oppili

Corporation to increase the number of women's specials

IN FOREFRONT: A file photograph of a woman driver and a conductor in a Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus at Tambaram.

CHENNAI : The Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) plans to recruit more women drivers and conductors "very soon" to operate its women's special services.

MTC sources said they are yet to decide on the actual numbers to be recruited. At present, the Corporation has two permanent women drivers and one employed on contract. It has seven women working as permanent conductors.

Five years of service

All of them have more than five years of service, the sources said. The two women drivers were operating buses on routes 18-A (Tambaram - High Court) and 12 B (Foreshore Estate to Vadapalani).

The Corporation operates a total of 50 women's special buses everyday. These specials are operated during the morning and evening rush hour, making 200 trips daily, the sources said.

New buses would soon be inducted, after which the Corporation would increase the number of women's specials, they said.

A senior officer said those who had completed Plus Two and had undergone driver training with the Institute of Road Transport Corporation and holding a valid licence to drive a heavy vehicle would be eligible for appointment.

It is also mandatory that applicants should be registered with the employment exchanges, the sources said. Women commuters, while welcoming the MTC's plans to introduce more vestibule buses, suggested that the authorities could reserve the rear portion of these buses for women passengers. This would be a big help to working women, they said.

If this was not feasible, they could do so at least during the rush hour, they added.

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