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How far women are safe in public transportation in India?

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Transportation is also important part of society which facilitates people to work in their respective field without any hurdle. Urban transportation has made easy to convert our cities into smart city, smart way of life. Such movement has changed the way people live and travel. Transportation has facilitated the life of women in very large scale. Women safety has become one of the challenging issues for Transport Industries. There is no doubt that transportation has played crucial role in human general life. As per 2011 India Census, numbers of working women in urban India who travel to work, 45 per cent of them go on foot to their workplaces, while only 27 per cent of men walk to their jobs and 22 per cent of women undertake the journey to work by bus, the corresponding figure for men is only 14 per cent.  But when it comes to women safety, the big question arises. Does transport Industries provides women safety? [caption id="attachment_15736" align="alignnone" wid...

Kolkata Metro | Authority collects penalty for nuisance activities at metro stations

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Kolkata: Penalty for nuisance activities such as spitting, littering , token theft, smoking and photography at metro station has became the story of daily news. Without the cooperation of public commuter, it is very difficult to maintain the beauty at the public transport area like metro and railways premises. Urban transportation especially metro services in urban area has brought smart transportation. India is developing country whose population is growing at the rate of 1.2%, ranking 94 in the world in 2013. In order to meet the demand of growing population in different respect like employment, education, health issues etc. To fulfill all this demand transportation need to be well maintained for the convenience of common people. Now point is who is responsible to maintain the beauty of station, is it only the Government or Private firm under which all the supervision is done?. Common people or commuters who are utilizing the services have no responsibility to keep the beauty of tra...