Airlines to go the BPO way, women staff to be dropped at doorstep

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday issued a set of guidelines asking all airlines to ensure that women employees are dropped right at their doorstep by the office cabs. Police issued these guidelines after it was found that "airlines have not been able to monitor these cab operators and ensure safe and secure transportation.''
Women employees, especially air hostesses, working late will now be dropped by their office cabs right at their doorstep and the cab will have to wait till the employee calls out to inform that she's safely inside the house. Tightening the existing norms, Delhi Police issued these orders in the jurisdiction of sub division of Palam (IGI airport).
The move comes after the recent incident in Dwarka, where a Jet Airways air hostess complained that a driver - employed with the same transport agency for the past six years - had tried to molest her in the office cab. Now, senior security officials will also be held liable if they fail to ensure that women employees are not travelling alone with the cab driver at night. A duly verified security guard has to be invariably deployed in each cab carrying women employees. The routes must be chalked out keeping in mind that a woman is not the first one to be picked or the last to be dropped.
09/07/11 Dwaipayan Ghosh/Times of India

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Jul 2011