Rly gateman chargesheeted over reporting on duty in car

Notwithstanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pitch for enabling even a common man in “hawai chappals” (slippers) to use air travel services and “sabka saath, sabka vikas”, a Grade-IV employee of Railways has been chargesheeted with an explanation sought for breaching protocols by using his private family car to report to office.

The matter relates to a Gateman (name withheld) posted near the Hapur Railway Station (Ghaziabad), a few kilometers from the national Capital. The employee uses his private car to report to his place of work during late evenings or nights. But the poor Gateman has been conveyed that his reporting on duty in a car is totally against protocols laid down by Indian Railways and hence,