Delhi metro liberates female commuters - Yahoo! News:
"If the metro wasn't there we wouldn't be going on this trip," said Anukriti Sinha, 17, who was headed with a friend from the city centre to a new mall in West Delhi after school let out.
"An auto is not a safe thing but here there are many people," said Sinha.
Sprawling New Delhi now spans almost 1,500 square kilometers, and even lifelong residents find themselves increasingly unfamiliar with the city.
But over the last three years, the metro has gradually connected government offices and shops in the city's colonial-era center with Mughal Old Delhi and with newly established residential neighborhoods.
Sinha, dressed in her uniform of a white shirt and pleated skirt, said the outing was the first time she had traveled so far from her East Delhi home without her parents.
Jyotsna Saluja, a housewife, said that the metro's arrival meant she no longer had to wait for her husband to have a day off in order to visit her parents.
"One can go on one's own, one doesn't have to depend on anyone," said long-haired Saluja, who has taken the metro on her own, but was accompanied on this visit by her in-laws.
