In the city of Tashkent, two young men in a moving subway carriage harassed an unknown girl, took a video of the situation, and uploaded it to the Internet. After that, their identities were determined and each of them was sentenced to 5 days of administrative imprisonment. The situation caused wide discussions on social networks and a number of Internet users proposed to allocate women-only carriages in the metro in order to prevent such unlawful behavior.
In this regard, the "Daryo" reporter contacted the Ministry of Transport and the information services of "Tashkent Metropolis" and received comments on how appropriate this proposal is and whether the issue of separate carriages is planned or not.
Navroz Ashurmatov, head of the press service of the Ministry of Transport, said that the organization has not yet received any appeals on this topic.
"There is no proposal of such content and our own plans do not include this either. There is already a shortage of the movement itself. For this reason, we cannot single out any wagon. Our goal is to provide enough transportation services to everyone," says Navroz Ashurmatov.
The head of the press service of "Tashkent Metropolitan" Toychi Mirzayev also said the same thing. According to him, the main issue is to regulate the flow of passengers.
"What we can do is reduce the time intervals and reduce the traffic. We are doing it step by step. In addition, new train complexes are being purchased. This automatically regulates the flow of passengers, but we have no plans to make separate wagons," Toychi Mirzayev said.
Earlier, there were reports on social networks that an internal affairs officer asked men and women to stand in line separately at the cash desk at the "Beruniy" metro station. Officials responded that the news that citizens are asked to stand in line separately by gender is not true.
The strategy of implementing separate carriages for men and women has already been undertaken by several Muslim countries for mainly religious purposes and also in Japan, Mexico, Brazil, and India because of the reports of sexual harassment cases. Some women consider this a "step back" in fighting for equal rights.
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