Points: Hazards of train journey — Operation of criminal gangs — drastic measures to be taken and public opinion to be mobilized.
Train journey is no longer comfortable. Like crowded buses and mini-buses, over-crowded trains also have become normal scenes. What is more, journeys are no longer safe. Pickpockets and pilferers are thriving. In more recent limes, robbery in trains has become frequent.
Organized gangs seem to operate in certain sections of railways. They commit dacoity in a running train, then pull chain and decamp. People complain that some railway men have connection with these gangs. Railway police seems to be either helpless or inadequate.
Drastic steps must be taken and exemplary punishments given to the criminals to stop robbery in a running train. If we cannot give protection to passengers, we are not a civilized nation. There, should be special arrangement for armed guards in all trains, if necessary. Public opinion should be organized against such gangsterism. Newspapers have an important role in this. Resistance to robbery by the public should be more active than passive. Sometimes foreigners become victims to robbery and they carry a poor impression of our country. The government must take an all-out effort’s to stop robbery in both local and long-distance trains.
Train journey is no longer comfortable. Like crowded buses and mini-buses, over-crowded trains also have become normal scenes. What is more, journeys are no longer safe. Pickpockets and pilferers are thriving. In more recent limes, robbery in trains has become frequent.
Organized gangs seem to operate in certain sections of railways. They commit dacoity in a running train, then pull chain and decamp. People complain that some railway men have connection with these gangs. Railway police seems to be either helpless or inadequate.
Drastic steps must be taken and exemplary punishments given to the criminals to stop robbery in a running train. If we cannot give protection to passengers, we are not a civilized nation. There, should be special arrangement for armed guards in all trains, if necessary. Public opinion should be organized against such gangsterism. Newspapers have an important role in this. Resistance to robbery by the public should be more active than passive. Sometimes foreigners become victims to robbery and they carry a poor impression of our country. The government must take an all-out effort’s to stop robbery in both local and long-distance trains.
