After the popularity of the small buggy at stations to ferry passengers with luggage up to their trains, the Central Railway has now come up with a similar idea to help physically challenged commuters. This is a battery-operated wheelchair atop a buggy that can lift a passenger and put him aboard the train. This wheelchair, which was successfully used in Nagpur division, will soon be tried in Mumbai.

In Nagpur, the wheelchair was bought under a CSR project from M/s Callidai Motor Works, Chennai, by the IRCTC at a cost of Rs 2.93 lakh. The number of such wheel chairs to be brought to Mumbai is yet to be decided.