With toilet facilities installed in only 97 train engines, women loco drivers say they have learnt to just bottle it up, prefers to go on leave instead, reports PTI.
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Women loco pilots face challenging working conditions, seek reforms
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Many stations lack rest rooms and safe transport for those working at odd hours
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Challenging conditions: The All India Loco Running Staff Association has represented to Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer (Operation), Chennai Division, Southern Railway, to provide exclusive rest rooms for women crew at several stations.
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Many stations lack rest rooms and safe transport for those working at odd hours Even as International Women s Day is celebrated, highlighting the achievement of women breaking of the glass ceiling in several domains, including driving buses, trucks and trains, very little has been done to improve their working condition, said a group of women loco pilots.