2 women join as conductors in Sirsa, have big dreams
HISAR : Two educated women have joined as ticket conductors at the Sirsa roadways depot on an ad hoc basis, soon after the Haryana government asked for applications for the post of drivers and conductors.
Both have been deployed on a local route and will work around five hours a day.
On Monday, Shefali Rani, 26, one of the conductors, who has completed her JBT (a teacher training course) and is also pursuing her Master’s in Public Administration joined her duty and is happy to have got the job.
“Even I have only seen men working as conductors and drivers,” Shefali says. “I want to become an IAS. No job is big or small, what is required is only dedication. I am dedicated to my job. With my salary, I will buy books,” Shefali adds.
Roadways General Manager
(GM) KR Kaushal said, “With the strike on for two weeks, the Haryana government decided to recruit employees under the outsourcing scheme. Two women candidates have been selected. One of them is Shefali, who got the Sirsa-kagdana routes; Nirmala Devi has got the Sirsa-ellenabad
route. They were given special training.”
The second woman conductor is Nirmala Devi, 29, who joined on Saturday. She said, “As soon as I came to know about the government policy, I filled the form. This will reduce financial problems I have been facing.”