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  DTC seeks help to get more women drivers

DTC seeks help to get more women drivers

AGE CORRESPONDENT
Published : Aug 29, 2016, 12:48 am IST
Updated : Aug 29, 2016, 12:48 am IST

Even after a year since Telangana-based Vankadarath Saritha joined the Corporation as its first lady driver, the DTC has failed to get more women drivers on board.

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Even after a year since Telangana-based Vankadarath Saritha joined the Corporation as its first lady driver, the DTC has failed to get more women drivers on board.

The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) has decided to approach NGOs to encourage women to fill in vacancies for drivers.

As per the rules laid down for hiring, the maximum age limit for female applicants is 40 years as against 35 years for male applicants. It will not be mandatory for women applicants to have a heavy motor vehicle licence, according to the Corporation.

Even those having light motor vehicle or commercial vehicle licence will be eligible to sit for the recruitment test.

“We have decided to write to several NGOs, which work for the welfare of women, to encourage female drivers to apply for the drivers’ job in DTC.

“The Corporation is also ready to give training to those women who are willing to work with us,” a senior DTC official said.

The Corporation is also looking to collaborate with Sakha Cabs, a women-only taxi service.

The decision to hire female drivers was recently taken at a DTC board meeting. The public transporter has 250 women conductors, but it has only one woman driver, who was inducted last April. She plies the Corporation’s buses on route 543, Anand Vihar to Safdarjung. When the Delhi Transport Corporation posted vacancies for drivers last year, seven women candidates had applied, but only one was selected as a trainee bus driver.

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