Dehli's First Woman Bus Driver Takes the Wheel

A woman by the name of Vankadarath Saritha is now the first woman bus driver in Dehli, India's capital. She had worked as a private chauffeur to provide for her family and hopes that with the income she is now earning as a bus driver she can help even more. Officials hope that Saritha will inspire other women to take on the transportation business. Saritha unfortunately was hired in a time where there are numerous cases involving women being raped on public transportations and they hope that with more women drivers, the transportation environment will be safer. Specifically in Dehli where a woman was gang raped in a bus just in 2012 and another woman raped as well in an uber last December. There have been women driver's in India but this is the first time Dehli has had hired one. Saritha is receiving a lot of good attention and hopes to provide a less threatening and dangerous transportation for women. By hiring Saritha, one can hope that there will be changes to protect the lives of women who need to take public transportation for work, their home, etc. 

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