Bus Jatra 4.0 focused on woman conductors, drivers, bus owners and transport personnel
Aniket Banerjee, general secretary of Bus-o-Pedia, said, “On the Route 57 bus, we showed Delhi, a few states in the South and even UP (in 2012), showed the entry of woman conductors . The Route 52 bus showcased a digital exhibition on the contribution of female workers, with short interviews with a few of them. Dolly Rana, conductor and owner of a Route 57 bus, had entered the industry out of necessity. “I bought the bus in 2017 but in the initial years, the conductors I employed would cheat me.
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I am not giving up my (conductor’s) bag any time soon,” the resident of Belgachhia, Howrah, told TOI . We did contact one who works in Diamond Harbour, but she could not make it,” Banerjee said. During the pandemic, when people were pressuring me to sell the bus, I decided to become a conductor myself. “Woman drivers on routes 34C and Nimta-Howrah mini are no longer in service. By bringing together historic preservation, environmental progress through clean energy vehicles, and frontline transport workers, the Kolkata Bus-o-Pedia Foundation continues to bridge the gap between daily commuters, fleet owners, and transit workers. Download the TOI App.
Kolkata: Transport minister Arjun Singh on Friday flagged off a procession of four buses from Howrah Maidan, honouring female bus conductors, drivers, owners and transport personnel from Bengal.
The rally was part of Bus Jatra 4.0, a rally-cum-exhibition held by Kolkata Bus-o-Pedia Foundation, a platform with 4.9 lakh social media followers, which celebrated Kolkata’s bus transport history and women who broke into the traditionally male-dominated industry. The four buses represented different eras and facets of Bengal’s transit landscape—a modern WBTC AC CNG bus, highlighting the move towards greener energy, a Route 29 minibus, and two of the oldest historic routes connecting Howrah with Esplanade—Route 57 (Kona-Esplanade) and the 103-year-old Route 52 (Ramrajatala-Esplanade). The fleet travelled to Academy of Fine Arts, where each vehicle housed an interactive museum-style exhibition for an hour before returning to Howrah Maidan to a waiting crowd of over 150 enthusiasts.
Among those honuored at the event were five WBTC woman conductors and an owner-conductor, operating in the private sector.