Tuesday 1 November 2016

ALL WOMAN FACILITATION CENTRE OPENED IN COIMBATORE RAILWAY STATION TODAY (01.11.2016)





 

In commemoration of completion of 9 years of fruitful service to the passengers of Indian Railways, since its formation on 01.11.2007, Salem Division, Southern Railway, has inaugurated the All Woman Facilitation Center in Coimbatore railway station, near the Passenger Reservation Centre (PRS),  today (01.11.2016).  This is one of seven such centers, in Southern Railway, and is the first of its kind on Indian Railways.

This All Women Facilitation Centre will provide a place for woman passengers to seek travel related assistance and is manned (rather womanned) round the clock by women staff from the Commercial and the Railway Protection Force departments of the Salem Division.  The counter provides the assistance needed by women passengers and in addition to this also provides help in lodging complaints with the Government Railway Police, access to prepaid auto services etc. In addition, the All Woman Facilitation Centers also have Baby Feeding Centers, where nursing mothers are given the necessary privacy to take care of their infants.   

More such Women Facilitation Centers are being planned to be provided in all the major stations of Salem Division, in the near future.

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