Many commuters are in a hurry to get on and off the train. While many are careful but accidents do happen and some of them can even be fatal. In addition, some people also try to commit suicides on railway tracks. Railway Security Force personnel, Railway Police and Maharashtra Security Force personnel present on the platform have to be on a lookout for all these things as well.
According to data revealed by the Central Railway, frontline staffs like RPF, ticket checkers and police, have saved lives of 13 people at various Central Railway stations in 2020.
Of these, six people were saved at Kalyan station, with most of the incidents taking place while people were boarding and alighting from long-distance trains, as per a CR statement.
In 2019, CR managed to save lives of as many as 21 people. Out of these, seven were in Dadar, two each in Byculla, Kurla, Kalyan and Karjat.
The most recent incident was on November 27, when RPF assistant inspector Vijay Solanki saved Soni Govinda when she was about to fall in the platform gap.
Another incident that took place on October 21, where the RPF assistant inspector Pinky Kumari saved a passenger who tried to board a train and fell, said the officials.
Two days ago, Piyush Goyal had tweeted a video depicting an RPF personnel's swift action preventing the death of a passenger. He captioned the video saying, "Due to the alertness of the railway security personnel, a passenger falling from a moving train in Howrah, Kolkata saved his life. I again request everyone to follow all necessary precautions and rules while the train is running and in the railway premises, your life is priceless."
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