PIL in Bombay High Court seeks separate compartment for senior citizens in local trains
A LAWYER and a retired senior private secretary of a judge recently approached the Bombay High Court seeking directions to the Union Ministry of Railways to earmark a separate coach for senior citizens similar to one for physically-handicapped persons in suburban local trains in Mumbai.
The PIL was filed by K P Purushothaman Nair (66), who claimed that at least 50,000 senior citizens like him travel daily on suburban trains and during the peak hours even younger people find it difficult to enter the compartments. Nair travels every day from Bandra to Churchgate.
