Archive · 15 Dec 2025
Women Bus Driver Training Programme Launched in Hyderabad
In Hyderabad, a special program was started to train women to become bus drivers.
The Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) and a private bus company worked together to make this happen.
They signed an agreement at Praja Bhavan.
The program's leader, Divya Devarajan, was there.
Many women who joined the program are happy and excited to become professional bus drivers.
The program is unique because it is one of the first of its kind in India.
It focuses on giving women real driving experience, especially with electric buses.
The goal is to help women have better jobs and to make the transport sector more inclusive.
SERP and a private bus operator launched a women bus driver training programme in Hyderabad.
The programme was inaugurated at Praja Bhavan with Divya Devarajan as the chair.
The initiative aims to empower women to enter the transport sector and create new career pathways.
The partner bus company is among the first in India to support a women-led bus driver training programme of this scale.
The programme focuses on providing hands-on driving experience and exposure to electric bus operations.
- Who
- SERP and a private bus operator
- What
- Launch of a women bus driver training programme
- When
- Monday
- Where
- Praja Bhavan, Hyderabad
- Why
- To empower women to enter the transport sector and create new career pathways
- Location
- Hyderabad
- Organizers
- SERP and a private bus operator
- Programme Venue
- Praja Bhavan
- Programme Chair
- Divya Devarajan
- Programme Goal
- Train women as bus drivers
- Government Involvement
- Telangana government appointed a woman driver in TGSRTC
- Programme Scale
- First of its kind in India
- Programme Focus
- Hands-on driving experience and electric bus operations