A report in this paper highlighted how a Harbour Line train slips off track covered in rubbish between Mahim and King's Circle stations on Wednesday.

The report detailed how mounds of garbage covered most of the tracks between King's Circle and Mahim stations on October 2, the fifth anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan. The derailment shut down the Harbour Line for four hours. Pictures showed gang men struggling hard to pull out the garbage snared in the train wheels. To add to this was the irony that the derailment thanks to garbage, (though the Railways has said the investigation to the cause of the derailment is on and it may not be solely due to the garbage) came at the peak of a two-week-long Railways Swachhata clean-up drive.

Our Railway tracks have become dumping grounds thanks to the encroachments along the tracks. Commuters too regularly throw rubbish on to the tracks. The latter needs to carry an empty bag to stow it away and dispose of it after alighting.