Students on train footboard to face music in college
Siddharth Prabhakar | TNN | Updated: Dec 30, 2017, 10:57 IST
CHENNAI: College students across the city and its suburbs who display their footboard travelling stunts on suburban trains will soon have to face their principal for their antics.
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has started a drive where it will write to college principals armed with solid evidence about these footboard travelling students, thus leading to strict action from the college management.
RPF personnel across the Chennai division, which is spread up to Tiruvallur and Vellore districts in the north-west and Kancheepuram in the south, have already started video recording the footboard travelling incidents. They have been directed to zoom in onto the faces of the offenders.
The footage will then be matched with the students' railway passes for photo identification. "We have collected this information from colleges and the commercial department," said Louis Amuthan, senior divisional security commissioner (Sr DSC), who heads the RPF of Chennai division.
This strategic move comes close on the heels of an alarming increase in the number of footboard travelling cases registered by RPF. Compared to 6,500 cases in January to November period of 2016, this year 7,500 cases have been registered in the same period. This is an increase of 15%. This has gone up to around 8,300 in December this year.
Data shows that maximum cases have been registered on the Chennai-Arakkonam section (40%), followed by the Chennai-Gummidipundi (32%) and the Chennai-Chengalpet (28%). In October, videos of students travelling on footboard of a train from Chennai to Arakkonam and brandishing knives and other weapons went viral, much to the shock of everyone. Sources say the stunts of Pachaiyappa's and Presidency college students have spilled over from MTC buses to suburban trains.
"It is become a menace. Many run-over deaths are also because the passengers are travelling on footboard. It is extremely dangerous, but students don't understand the risk it carries," said Amuthan. RPF personnel on the ground say that there are many commuters who travel on footboard as there is no space inside the trains, but college students choose the dangerous way of travel only to 'show-off'. Footboard travelling can be dangerous for other co-passengers too.
Siddharth Prabhakar | TNN | Updated: Dec 30, 2017, 10:57 IST
CHENNAI: College students across the city and its suburbs who display their footboard travelling stunts on suburban trains will soon have to face their principal for their antics.
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has started a drive where it will write to college principals armed with solid evidence about these footboard travelling students, thus leading to strict action from the college management.
RPF personnel across the Chennai division, which is spread up to Tiruvallur and Vellore districts in the north-west and Kancheepuram in the south, have already started video recording the footboard travelling incidents. They have been directed to zoom in onto the faces of the offenders.
The footage will then be matched with the students' railway passes for photo identification. "We have collected this information from colleges and the commercial department," said Louis Amuthan, senior divisional security commissioner (Sr DSC), who heads the RPF of Chennai division.
This strategic move comes close on the heels of an alarming increase in the number of footboard travelling cases registered by RPF. Compared to 6,500 cases in January to November period of 2016, this year 7,500 cases have been registered in the same period. This is an increase of 15%. This has gone up to around 8,300 in December this year.
Data shows that maximum cases have been registered on the Chennai-Arakkonam section (40%), followed by the Chennai-Gummidipundi (32%) and the Chennai-Chengalpet (28%). In October, videos of students travelling on footboard of a train from Chennai to Arakkonam and brandishing knives and other weapons went viral, much to the shock of everyone. Sources say the stunts of Pachaiyappa's and Presidency college students have spilled over from MTC buses to suburban trains.
"It is become a menace. Many run-over deaths are also because the passengers are travelling on footboard. It is extremely dangerous, but students don't understand the risk it carries," said Amuthan. RPF personnel on the ground say that there are many commuters who travel on footboard as there is no space inside the trains, but college students choose the dangerous way of travel only to 'show-off'. Footboard travelling can be dangerous for other co-passengers too.
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