loco pilot

Kumkum Dongre from Madhya Pradesh turned her childhood fascination for trains into her lifelong dream and became one of India's first female locopilots, commanding the country's first all-woman crew on a goods' train.

Following a meeting with Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani, where zonal heads brought the issue of being understaffed to light on November 24, the Railways may soon speed up its recruitment process.