A video showed the men gathered in a line along one side of the wagon
A technical failure in a tower wagon (a self-propelled unit used to inspect the overload cables that powered electric locomotives) at a railway station in Madhya Pradesh Temple caused a heartbreaking sight: about three dozen people forced to manually push the wagon from the main line to another track.
A video of the incident showed workers, who had been summoned from a nearby rake point, and other citizens, gathered in a line along one side of the wagon, with their legs dug into the sharp gravel and stones. crushed that are packed around the railroad tracks.
Some of the men don’t even seem to have shoes to protect themselves from the stones.
According to some reports, the whole operation took more than an hour and caused delays on some trains.
A technical error with a tower wagon in Harda caused a heartbreaking sight: people were forced to manually push the wagon from the main line to another track. @ndtv@ndtvindiapic.twitter.com/WQTO0xhfEx
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The incident in Madhya Pradesh comes days after the Railway Minister visited passengers aboard a night train from Odysha’s capital, Bhubaneswar, to Rayagada district of the state.
Vaishnaw, a former IAS officer who took charge of the railways and IT ministries, was filmed talking to some passengers who praised the train and Indian Railways facilities.
Earlier this week, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who hails from Madhya Pradesh, said India would soon have “air taxi” services that would rival the Uber app.
“Air taxis are being investigated worldwide … and there are a lot of emerging companies. There’s no time when, like the taxis you see on the roads, like Uber, etc., you’ll see taxis in the air according to the new drone policy I think this is very possible, “Scindia said.