In the conference room of government guest house at Thycaud on Friday, women traffic wardens, dressed in their familiar blue and khaki uniform, expressed anguish at the government machinery’s failure to recognise them.
“The traffic authorities act as if we are not their staff. It is the same with the City Corporation. Neither wants to recognise us. It is as if we are children of the road. There is no place for us to go and present our issues,” a traffic warden said.
The traffic wardens had turned up for a public hearing organised by the Kerala Women’s Commission on problems faced by women traffic wardens and home guards in the State, the 11th and last in a series of such hearings to hear out problems faced by women in various sectors.
