Kherki Daula has become the second toll plaza in Delhi-NCR to hire women toll collectors. The first to do so was the Gurgaon-Faridabad toll plaza.
“We trained the women over the last week, beginning April 18. They began work on Monday morning,” said Piyush Gandhi, Project Head, Skylark Group — the company which operates the toll plaza. According to Gandhi, the women were hired to work alongside men with the aim of “empowerment”, as well as in the hope that their presence will reduce incidents of friction and violence at the toll plaza.
The women currently work in 10 of the 22 lanes. But due to safety concerns, they work the morning shift between 8 am and 4 pm. Officials said a separate guesthouse has been provided to accommodate them, with company vehicles transporting them to and from the toll plaza.
We keep on reading of news of schemes related to empowerment of women. Here is one example where one can see the women being empowered in the real sense. In this story of Sakshi Dayal published in The Indian Express also read some of the inputs of these women who are working there.
