Another colleague, Deepa Dinesh, has been on the job for 17 years and “even drives the bus inside the depot,” they said. Women may have reached the top in many fields, but the driver’s seat in State-run buses are still a male domain. The numbers among mechanical staff, on the other hand, are slightly more encouraging: there around 828 women mechanical staff against close to 4,000 male staff. Gowri (name changed), for instance, has been driving inside the depot for months. Ameena Nadaf (30), a resident of Tumakuru, said she was also driving inside the depot, but chose to stick to doing a conductor’s job after delivering a child.

Source: The Hindu March 07, 2018 20:19 UTC