Madurai: More than 2.25 women use a free bus for women on TNSTC buses in Madurai City, but many of them say conductors from these buses only have insults for them and don’t print their words.
Women’s activist said the noble scheme was announced by Minister M K Stalin after taking over may not have the desired results if this attitude continues.
P Roja from Mathur at Alagarkoil Road Travels to Surveyor Colony where it works in the department store.
“The free bus trip is a gift for my family, because there is a lot of savings with my salary, but often the conductor makes it very clear that we enjoy improper privileges, and it hurts,” he said.
Because the bus frequency declined at night he said he had to travel by taking RS 40 tickets on a private bus at home.
N Venkateswari, other regular bus passengers, say that sometimes conductors make condescending comments.
“ They stop the bus about fifty feet from the bus stop in Talakulam and we have to run to get into it.
Immediately, they asked us whether we thought we were Queen and could take the time to enter, “he said.
“People might think what just ran after the bus, but we have never experienced it for a long time after our school days.
Now, they make us run with all my heart.
It is a sorry sight to see the old woman struggling to fight for Catch these buses that are not so often, “said K Nagalakhmi from Karuupatti, a tailor, who claimed that the problem was now routine.` `This is one of the best schemes launched by the Tamil Nadu government, but then TNSTC must also be sensitive For his workers about how to treat women, because it is something that is awarded by the government and it is not something that is considered cheap, “Selva Gomathy said a social activist, who said that this problem had been considered by many garment industry workers with whom he worked.
Responding to the allegations, the General Manager of the TNSTC Madurai K Elangovan said they had received won’t Han even as a video when the service was launched, after that they took action against the staff concerned.
“ We even put some of them under suspension.
Some were sent for two-day training in drivers and bus conductor training institutions in Pasumalai, “he said.