The “ LADIES ONLY ”  Post Office  :

 The board outside the Shastri Bhavan post office in central Delhi is a declaration of women’s empowerment. It says: This Post Office is managed by Women Postal Employees.

Enter India’s first all-women post office that was inaugurated on International Women’s Day, on March 8 this year. The post office is wo-manned by the postmaster, two postal assistants and a multi-tasking service (MTS) person. The neat and clean air-conditioned interiors boast of drinking water and toilet facilities for the staff, a far cry from the regular post offices staffed by a single postmaster in a dingy and small space.

“We are women running the post office and, of course, as women we like to keep our space neat and spick and span,” says Saroj Varma, the first woman postmaster in an all-women post office in the country, as she settles in her chair for a chat.

//the new Indian express/delhi 02.06.13//