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Mumbai, Jan 9: The Matunga suburban railway station in Mumbai's Central Railway (CR) network famous to be India’s first all-women staff station has entered the Limca Book of Records 2018.

The all-women station commissioned in June 2017 by Central Railway general manager D K Sharma, employs forty one women staffers, including 17 booking clerks, six Railway Protection Force personnel, 8 ticket checkers, 5 point persons, 2 announcers and 2 sweepers.

The functioning of the station is supervised by station manager Mamta Kulkarni, who also happens to be the first woman assistant station master recruited on Mumbai Division of Central Railway in 1992.

"The idea is to create an environment for women where they can make all decisions of their own for their personal and professional well-being, with good organisation," CR spokesperson Sunil Udasi told media.

For the past six months, the staff has been handling overall operations of the railway station and efficiently managing the station.

This is not the first instance of women’s empowerment in Indian Railways' Mumbai region. In 1988 Surekha Bhosale-Yadav became the first woman train driver in Central Railway. In 1992 the world's first 'Ladies Special' suburban train was introduced in Western Railway.