So called New Mumbai Locals

I still remember the experience of travelling in the new mumbai locals about a year back or so. The excitement of travelling in a local which was not rusted and oil painted (brown & yellow)..err...i mean re painted..or re re re painted (with cobwebs & dirt). At that time i pessimistically told my friend that looks like this local will age faster than the old ones.

It pains that my pessimism about Mumbai was once again correct. Th so called new rakes have indeed aged many times faster. To me it looks at least few decades old. The pan spittoons, the many layers of stickers (gopi health clinic, shah piles clinic, baba adil shah, baba bangali, pass 10th 12th directly, work from home etc etc etc...) . As it was getting more and more painful for me to bear at last it I decided to write to western railway GM & AGM.

I wrote to GM, AGM and Western Railway PRO about the poor conditions of local and asked them to take a lesson in rakes management from Delhi Metro. But as expected, no revert.

This is the price we all pay when there is no accountability nor any performance audit in government sector, they continue to rot and we continue to suffer.