{"id":55717,"date":"2019-09-29T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=55717"},"modified":"2019-09-27T17:56:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T12:56:11","slug":"punjab-have-special-buses-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-have-special-buses-women.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab to have special buses for women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Transport Department of Punjab has decided to launch special buses to be used exclusively by women, a news source reported. This initiative is aimed at providing women with a comfortable and safe travel experience. The announcement was made on Thursday by the Punjab Minister of Transport Jahanzeb Khan Kachi during a meeting with MPA Talat Naqvi at his office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/park-for-women-and-children-to-get-pkr-16-million.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Park for women and children to get PKR 16 million<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kachi announced that the goal of the ministry behind launching the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/safe-public-transport-for-women-project-launched-in-lahore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new buses is to facilitate women<\/a>, especially working women and female students. He said that the Government of Punjab wants to focus on the social development of women as they make up more than 50% of the population. The country cannot progress without giving special attention to the socioeconomic development of females.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/free-transport-introduced-for-shelter-homes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free transport introduced for shelter homes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The minister added that the department has decided to upgrade C-category bus stands to provide more facilities. They will be working on providing waiting areas, safe drinking water and toilets at bus stands in an attempt to increase convenience for travelling women and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Transport Department of Punjab has decided to launch special buses to be used exclusively by women, a news source reported. This initiative is aimed at providing women with a comfortable and safe travel experience. The announcement was made on Thursday by the Punjab Minister of Transport Jahanzeb Khan Kachi during a meeting with MPA Talat Naqvi at his office. Read:\u00a0Park for women and children to get PKR 16 million Kachi announced that the goal of the ministry behind launching the new buses is to facilitate women, especially working women and female students. He said that the Government of Punjab wants to focus on the social development of women as they make up more than 50% of the population. The country cannot progress without giving special attention to the socioeconomic development of females. Read:\u00a0Free transport introduced for shelter homes The minister added that the department has decided to upgrade C-category bus stands to provide more facilities. They will be working on providing waiting areas, safe drinking water and toilets at bus stands in an attempt to increase convenience for travelling women and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":34574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13202],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-punjab-to-have-special-buses-for-women"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab to have special buses for women - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Transport Department of Punjab has decided to launch special buses to be used exclusively by women, a news source reported. 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