Write a biography of India’s first female train driver, Surekha Yadav, along with an interview.
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BIOGRAPHY-;
- | birth_name = Surekha R. Bhosale | birth_date = 2 September 1965 (age 55) | birth_place = Satara, Maharashtra, India | spouse = Shankar Yadav | parents = Sonabai & Ramchandra Bhosale | children = 2 | known_for = India's first female (locopilot) train driver | employer = Indian Railways, CSTM, Central Railway. }}
- Early life
- Surekha was born in Satara in Maharashtra on 2 September 1965 to Sonabai and Ramchandra Bhosale. Her father late. Ramchandra Bhosale was a farmer; she is the eldest of his five children.[8] She had initial schooling at Saint Paul Convent High School, Satara
- Professional life
- Yadav was interviewed by the Railway Recruitment Board, Mumbai, in 1987. She was selected and joined the Central Railway as a trainee assistant driver in 1986 at the Kalyan Training School where she trained for six months.[9][10][9] She became a regular assistant driver in 1989.[7] The first local goods train that she piloted was numbered L-50, which runs between Wadi Bunder and Kalyan when she was assigned the task of checking the running condition of train's engine, the signals and all related works.[8][9] She was then assigned to work as a goods train driver in 1996. In 1998, she became a full-fledged goods train driver.[9][10] In 2010, she became a ghat driver on the Western Ghat railway line.[7] She was Asia's first motorwoman to pilot Deccan Queen.[11] For driving a “ghat loco”, in the ghat (hill) section of the Western Ghats, she received special training to run the twin-engined passenger trains that negotiate the hills of western Maharashtra
- Awards Received
- Jijau puraskar (1998)
- Women achievers award (2001) (by lions)
- Rashtriya mahila aayog, delhi (2001)
- Lokmat sakhi manch (2002)
- S.B.I. Platinum jubilee year celebrations (2003-2004)
- Sahyadri hirkani award (2004)
- Prerna puraskar (2005)
- G.M.award (2011)
- Woman achievers award (2011) (by central railway)
- RWCC Best Women award of year 2013. For first lady locopilot on Indian Railways on date 5 April 2013
- GM award for first lady locopilot on Indian Railways. April 2011
Answer:
Surekha Yadav née Surekha Shankar Yadav (born 2 September 1965) is a female locopilot (train driver) of the Indian Railways in India,.[1][2] She became India's first female train driver in 1988. She drove the first "Ladies Special" local train for Central Railways when it was first introduced in the four metro cities by Mamata Banerjee the then Railway Minister, in April 2000.[3][4] A momentous event in her career was on 8 March 2011, on the International Women's Day, when she became Asia's first woman train driver to drive the Deccan Queen from Pune to CST, through difficult but scenic topography,[3][5][6] where she was greeted by the then Mayor of Mumbai Shraddha Jadhav, at CST, the headquarter of Central Railway zone.[6] It was Surekha's dream-come-true as she drove one of the prestigious trains of the Central Railway, which carries the female of name; the Mumbai-Pune Railway Pravasi Sangh (association) strongly supported her to run this train.[7] She repeated the feat ten years later driving an all woman crew from Mumbai to Lucknow. A commonly heard comment in 2011 was that "Women don't drive railway engines'".[1]