Baton Transport A/S, Hungary In Association with The Vega Group Announces Initiative to Support and Empower Women Drivers in India and Provide them with employment opportunities in Eastern European Countries

To Partner with NGOs-Azad Foundation, Taxshe and WICCI For Their Training and Career Development

Bengaluru, Tuesday, February 21, 2023: In an effort to empower women drivers in India and support them in finding employment opportunities overseas, the CEO of Baton Transport A/S, Hungary, Mr. Claus Normann Hansen, today announced their CSR initiative in partnership with the Vega Group, India. Vega Management Consultancy (OPC) Pvt. Ltd and Vera Skills Training Pvt. Ltd, part of the Vega Group, India, are formally associated with Baton Transport A/S in Hungary through their consulting partner-BÁNYAI & PARTNERS CONSULTING, Hungary for the identification of Indian truck and trailer drivers for eastern European countries.

As part of their focus on UN SDG 5 on gender equality, Baton Transport A/S Hungary is focussed on increasing gender diversity in the trucking industry and has identified training and recruiting of women drivers as their key focus, In India, they propose to train and develop identified women drivers through NGOs and at the next level provide selected women drivers with jobs in Hungary and neighbouring countries in their fleet operations.

The NGOs and Forums that Baton Transport and Bányai & Partners Consulting are in discussion with for the training, skill and career development of the women drivers include the following:

Azad Foundation with strategic partner Sakha which actively promotes opportunities and markets for women drivers in transport and e-commerce industry. for women

Taxshe: Bangalore-based NGO working to help provide safe mobility solutions . and kids

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● Women's Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (WICCI) with Skill & Career Development partner SAATHIYA with a larger goal of increasing the presence of women in the hospitality and tourism industry

Speaking at the Press Conference held to announce their CSR initiative, Mr. Claus CEO BATON TRANSPORT A/S shared, "Women represent a far lesser percentage of the total number of truck drivers globally. We need to highlight the importance of increasing diversity in the trucking industry and to focus on training, recruiting and skilling female truck drivers. To this effect, we at Baton Transport have chosen to focus on UN SDG 5 on gender equality and India is an important market for us. Our vision is also to support and empower the women to build better lives for themselves by opening up opportunities."

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Mr. Tibor Bányai, Managing Director, Bányai & Partners Consulting, Hungary, shared, "India has been a big market for us for recruiting drivers to Hungary and other European Countries. Through this new initiative, we look forward to engaging with more women drivers to empower and train them so that they get to explore opportunities overseas and earn a better living."

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Sharing his thoughts, Mr. Poornesh MH, Director, Vega Group, India, shared, "We at Vega pleased to partner with Baton Transport to empower and support women drivers in India and help them get better employment opportunities. This association will also help support the work done by the Directorate of Women & Child Development, Government of Karnataka, toward helping women from economically backward societies to develop and enhance their skills and get employment both

within the Mr. Poornesh further added, "Currently there is a very small community their living driving taxis semi-trailer trucks and buses. We would, on a step-by-step approach, increase drivers of Karnataka."

the impact Speaking at the announcement, Ritu Chawla, National Vice-President, Hospitality and Tourism WICOL, shared, "Thank you for the invite and giving us a platform to present what WICC - Hospitality & Tourism is doing in India to empower women in the hospitality sector. We already work on a Skill Development Program with our Skill & Career Development partner SAATHIYA- a Shibulal Philanthropic initiative, with a larger goal of increasing the presence of women in the Industry, by giving the under-served and aspiring youth and opportunity to come within a respectable fold of employment in Hotels & QSRs. We believe that this association is in are synergies in the work WICCI would like to invite Skill Development Partners - SAATHIYA for this event and see if there are any from this association with Vega & Baton." Azad

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synergies Meenu Vadera, Founder, Azad Foundation & Sakha Consulting Wings sharedFoundation in 2008, there were few women chauffeurs in India. Azad set out to address the structural barriers that prevented women from joining the workforce including mobility restrictions, violence at home and in public places and the burden of unpaid care work. Today,

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