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“The Western Railways took to their official Twitter handle on January 6 and shared about an all-female crew piloted goods train which caught attention of Twitteratis. In no time they were praised by several people including Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal who also tweeted about the initiative. Western Railway posted two pictures on their Twitter and wrote, “Western Railway breaks yet another stereotype! An all-female crew piloted a Goods train from Vasai Road to Vadodara on 5th January, 2021 which has set a glaring example that no job is beyond the capacity of women to perform as well as to excel. drmbct”. Loco Pilot Kumkum Dongre, Assistant Loco Pilot Udita Verma and Goods Guard Akansha Rai became first females to takeu00a0control of the first all-female goods train.u00a0. The Railway Minister also shared pictures of the female employees and tweeted in Hindi. The English translation reads, “Our women employees have set a wonderful example of empowerment by efficiently running the goods train from Vasai Road in Maharashtra to Vadodara in Gujarat. In this train, the responsibility from loco pilot to guard was handled by women employees”. Look at Goyalu2019s tweet:. Both the tweet received many likes and heart full comments. A user commented u201cSaluteu201d while another user wrote “Congratulations”. A third user commented “This is taking women empowerment to the next level. From the Loco pilot to the guard of this Freight Train are women. More power to women!”. #IndianRailways #women #PiyushGoyal #Twitteru00a0.”