Maneka moots women taxi services for female travellers

December 08, 2014 22:28

Union Minister Maneka Gandhi today mooted the idea of women taxi service exclusively for female travellers and said government is in talks with some business enterprises to launch this facility.

Gandhi's comments came against the backdrop of growing outrage over the alleged rape of a 27-year-old woman executive on Friday night in the National Capital Region by a driver of international taxi-booking service Uber. The Union Women and Child Development Minister also sought to link overpopulation with crime as she lamented that continuing incidents of rapes indicated a 'cultural problem'.

The minister asked companies to look after the 'welfare' of its employees before putting the 'onus on the government'. "I think the question is not putting the onus on the government. The question is that every company should look after their welfare as well," she said.

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