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India Poised or Poisoned

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Five new-age trains recently introduced by the Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC) to make travel more comfortable for the city’s harassed train commuters have been vandalised and defaced by miscreant commuters. These trains were a part of the World Bank-funded Mumbai Urban Transport Project worth Rs 4,500 crore.

Here’s what “uncaring” Mumbaikars have done to the trains:

• The shiny silver-purple paint on the trains’ exterior has been covered with red stains as passengers have been spitting paan and mawa all over them. The area below windows and doors now looks like a toilet wall.

• Instead of painting instructions and details of class on compartments, MRVC had pasted imported stickers marking the compartments for women, luggage and handicapped passengers. These stickers had reflective characters so that commuters would be able to see them even with low lights at platforms. These stickers have been torn by commuters, and the instructions are now difficult to read. (more…)

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