ROURKELA: Hema Mohanty (48), a working slum woman, was crawling under a stationary goods train to cross the tracks near the permanently closed level-crossing at Basanti Colony here when the train started moving. Recounting her ordeal, she narrates how she escaped death by a whisker on the day.
In the absence of Foot Over Bridges (FOB), like Mohanty hundreds of men, women and school children in hurry to reach their destinations unmindfully take risk to cross the railway tracks through the permanently closed level-crossings at Basanti Colony, STI and ITI areas of Rourkela. The situation becomes dangerous when goods trains remain stranded on the tracks for long.
