Free bus, Metro rides scheme: What Delhi govt’s proposal means to women
Free bus, Metro rides scheme: What Delhi govt’s proposal means to women Contrary to the expectation that women in urban areas get more employment opportunities, the data show that India’s female labour force participation rate in cities is lower than in rural areas Current Affairs :-On a winter’s day in mid 2018, 23-year-old information section official Sheela* needed to settle on a brief moment choice when the driver of her common small van disregarded her solicitations to back off and drop her off: she could either remain on the vehicle- – the solitary traveler – and hazard conceivable strike, or bounce off the moving vehicle and hazard damage. She jumped off, harming her correct arm and lower leg to guarantee her security from the driver of the gramin seva (country administration) van, a favored method of transport in the low-pay rural areas of India’s capital. Voyaging in excess of 7 km from an office in Okhla Phase I in southern Delhi to her home in Dakshinpuri, the c...