‘If girl is first passenger on bus, enable her to enter’: Odisha ladies fee to move dept
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BHUBANESWAR: In a bid to interrupt a discriminatory superstition, the Odisha State Commission for Women (OSCW) has requested the transport division to move orders that girls needs to be allowed to board buses even once they have been the primary passengers.
The OSCW’s order got here after it disposed of a petition which alleged that bus staffers in Odisha stop ladies passengers from boarding the car first, contemplating it to be a foul omen.
The fee noticed that the irrational and discriminatory practise stemmed from the superstition that if a girl turns into the primary passenger, the bus could meet with an accident or do unhealthy enterprise for the day.
Social employee Ghasiram Panda from Sonepur filed a petition with the ladies’s fee, citing an occasion of a girl passenger being allegedly prevented from boarding a bus as the primary passenger at Baramunda bus stand in Bhubaneswar.
The fee, in a letter to Transport Commissioner cum Chairman Amitabh Thakur on July 26, mentioned, “These type of incidents have come to our knowledge in the past also. So, in order to avoid future inconveniences to women passengers and to protect their safety and dignity, I would like to request you to ensure that the buses (both government and private) allow women as the first passenger. An early action with intimation to OSCW is solicited.”
The fee additionally prompt that the transport division reserve 50 per cent of the seats for ladies passengers.
“The transport department will ask bus owners to sensitise their staff. It is wrong to discriminate against women on the bus. They should get first preference,” the official mentioned Debendra Sahu, secretary of the Odisha Private Bus Owners Association, mentioned, “We consider women as a form of Goddess Laxmi and Kali. Women represent Mother God. Therefore, there should be no discrimination in this regard.”
BHUBANESWAR: In a bid to interrupt a discriminatory superstition, the Odisha State Commission for Women (OSCW) has requested the transport division to move orders that girls needs to be allowed to board buses even once they have been the primary passengers.
The OSCW’s order got here after it disposed of a petition which alleged that bus staffers in Odisha stop ladies passengers from boarding the car first, contemplating it to be a foul omen.
The fee noticed that the irrational and discriminatory practise stemmed from the superstition that if a girl turns into the primary passenger, the bus could meet with an accident or do unhealthy enterprise for the day.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Social employee Ghasiram Panda from Sonepur filed a petition with the ladies’s fee, citing an occasion of a girl passenger being allegedly prevented from boarding a bus as the primary passenger at Baramunda bus stand in Bhubaneswar.
The fee, in a letter to Transport Commissioner cum Chairman Amitabh Thakur on July 26, mentioned, “These type of incidents have come to our knowledge in the past also. So, in order to avoid future inconveniences to women passengers and to protect their safety and dignity, I would like to request you to ensure that the buses (both government and private) allow women as the first passenger. An early action with intimation to OSCW is solicited.”
The fee additionally prompt that the transport division reserve 50 per cent of the seats for ladies passengers.
“The transport department will ask bus owners to sensitise their staff. It is wrong to discriminate against women on the bus. They should get first preference,” the official mentioned Debendra Sahu, secretary of the Odisha Private Bus Owners Association, mentioned, “We consider women as a form of Goddess Laxmi and Kali. Women represent Mother God. Therefore, there should be no discrimination in this regard.”
