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Matunga station -Limca Book of Records

January 11 , 2018 2363 days 899 0
  • The Matunga suburban station on the Central Railway (CR) has entered into the Limca Book of Records 2018 for having an all-woman staff.
  • The achievement comes six months after Matunga became the first railway station in the country to be run by an all- woman staff.
  • The station is being manned exclusively by women staffers since July 2017, a first on the Indian Railways.
  • Earlier, the Indian Railways' Mumbai region set new records in women's empowerment with
    • Surekha Bhosale-Yadav becoming the first woman train driver on CR in 1988.
    • The world's first 'Ladies Special' suburban train introduced on Western Railway in 1992.

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