Hyderabad: Janani Rao, a 21-year-old Pyschology a Mass Communication graduate from Villa Marie College, here in Somjaguda has taken up a job of delivering food with the popular online food ordering and delivery platform, Swiggy.

A young graduate who is pursuing her Masters in Psychology, she says that the main reason behind taking up this challenge is to disprove the social stigma around women taking up such jobs is considered dangerous.

“I didn’t see any women delivering food. It is unconventional and someone had to take the step up and I did,” the 21-year-old said to a leading daily.

Janani has been scooting around in the lanes of Banjara Hills, Jubilee Hills and Somajiguda delivering food, inspiring young girls and women for taking up the jobs which mainly male-dominated.

Janani also says food delivery, which is thought of as an odd job is a taboo for a lot of people coming from a higher stature in the society.

She also said that she has been receiving a positive response from majority of the people and are surprised to hear from her as a delivery agent assigned to them. Talking about whatever she is feeling from such good response, she says that it feels like she is impacting many in a good way. She also added that her family and friends have been supportive and proud of whatever she is doing.

Her family and friends have been supportive and proud of whatever she is doing.

"Swiggy has taken good measures to keep them secure by providing them with pepper sprays and developing an exclusive safety app which connects them to their emergency contacts", she said to the daily speaking about the safety for women in the job.

She also said that she would love to interact and see more number of women taking up this jobs in Hyderabad. Being educated and hailing from a family of corporate employees, the young inspiring girl also hopes that the taboo and the stigma around such jobs in our society to fade away. Her vision behind this drive is that everybody should be open about the dignity and equality of labour.

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