All Women Post Office in Delhi inaugurated

INDIA’S FIRST:Staff members of India’s first all-women post office soon after it was inaugurated by Union Minister of Communications & Information Technology Kapil Sibal at Shastri Bhavan in New Delhi on Friday marking International Women’s Day.     PHOTO: V. SUDERSHAN The Hindu March, 9,2013

               The Department of Posts have decided to open All Women Post Offices in some cities to encourage women to take more responsibility and for more access to the women customers. The first such Post office was inaugurated in Delhi yesterday, 8th March, the International Women’s day. Communications Minister, Shri Kapil Sibal, who inaugurated the Post Office, stated that more such post offices will be opened in other cities also.
              All Women Banks and All Women Police Stations are already functioning in the country. Now All Women Post Offices also have started. On the International Women’s Day yesterday, a few flights were having all women staff. These are all commendable but much more is to be done to free women from the shackles put on them by the society through customs, tradition and patriarchy