For the past seven years, a team of Railway Protection Force’s (RPF) women staffers have ensured that women commuters can travel safely in Mumbai’s local trains. The team, called ‘Mahila Vahini’, catch chain snatchers, mobile robbers and rescue minor girls from stations.
This team was formed by former Railway Minister Mamta Banerjee in 2010 for the safety of women commuters. It consists of approximately 50 women staffers of RPF who are deployed at each railway stations on the central line between Chhtrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) to Khopoli. 30-year-old Mamta Chaudhary, subordinate of ‘Mahila Vahini’ has accepted all challenges in the job which she has come across.
Read more of this in a report by Karishma Ravindran published in Free Press Journal
