Indian Railways: Life Line of India

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This boy represent all the boys who lives at the station and make there living out of the rages-water bottles, contains, papers- thrown by the passengers on to the platform or on the railway tracks. They risk there lives to collect the waste from the tracks, so that they can sell it and earn something out of it. Usually whole family is involves in this task. Many a times members from different families fight over the collect just a simple plastic bottle thrown by the passenger. This boy was having some quite time sitting with his mates after collecting some plastic bottles.

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When passengers enter the Old Delhi platform there is big screen were passengers to get to see running status of their trains and on which platform their train is coming. Its very useful as there are dozens of trains arriving at station at a single time and to keep up with their location these big display screens are very useful. As the inquiry counters are mostly flooded with people and there is a chance you miss the announcement at a Delhi Railway station because of the heavy noise of locomotives & crowds. These Display boards also tells passengers anout the platform number on which train is coming. you know how much this information is helpful when there are 16 platforms at a station.

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Coolies, workers(who load stuff in the trains luggage compartments ) and shopkeepers usually know each other. I have seen them sharing laughter's, having discussion and even getting angry at each other at times. Though they have no common tasks, still they come in contact with each other and become friends. In their free times they sit together and discuss their up's and down's in life and days.

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Indian Railways: Life Line of India

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