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Netaji Bhavan becomes Kolkata's first ever all-women metro station

| @indiablooms | Mar 09, 2018, at 05:19 am

Kolkata, Mar 8 (IBNS): Marking the International Women's Day, the Kolkata Metro Rail authority on Thursday handed over its Netaji Bhavan station to an all women crew, officials said.

According to reports, the station will be fully operated by Kolkata Metro's women employees, including the station superintendent, shift in-charge, booking clerks, security personnel, station porter, point operator, commercial porter, sweepers and other cleaning staffers, from today (Thursday) onwards.

"In a step towards women empowerment, the Kolkata Metro has declared Netaji Bhavan station an 'All-Women Metro Station' from today," Kolkata Metro Rail's CPRO Indrani Banerjee told IBNS.

"Netaji Bhavan station, from where country's first underground metro rail's maiden run began on October 24 in 1984, will be entirely managed by our women staffers and we are very happy to announce the endeavour to empower our women workforce on International Women's Day," she added.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha, Images: Kolkata Metro Railway)

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