Don’t pull alarm chains in trains for trivial causes, passengers advised
Amritsar, February 22
Every week-long drive to make prepare passengers privy to pulling the alarm chain is being carried out within the Ferozepur division. The drive entered its second day right this moment.
Passengers on the Amritsar railway station, which falls underneath the division, have been made conscious of the supply of an alarm chain obtainable in all coaches of a prepare for his or her security and safety. The target of the drive is to make each passenger conscious of the principles of alarm chain pulling.
Ticket checking employees and Railway Safety Power (RPF) jawans of the division are making individuals privy to chain pulling by speaking to passengers throughout the journey and likewise by making bulletins by way of public handle methods at stations.
Passengers usually pull the chain on the stations the place a prepare doesn’t cease, or cease the prepare by pulling the chain for trivial causes. It is a cause why trains run late and passengers face delay in reaching their vacation spot. On this situation, there’s a provision of Rs 1,000 wonderful or one 12 months imprisonment or each for pulling the chain with none cause.
Within the division, to date, this 12 months 174 individuals have been arrested and a wonderful of Rs 48,400 was recovered from them underneath Part 141 of the Railway Act in reference to the alarm chain pulling by the RPF.
The alarm chain system in prepare is supposed to cease a prepare in case of an emergency. The chain ought to be pulled solely when there’s a concrete cause for pulling it in case of any form of accident or any emergency within the prepare.