To ensure that flying plastic sheets used to cover homes do not affect the punctuality of the Central Railway when it rains heavily, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) in June started serving notices to hundreds of hutment dwellers and residents of housing societies located along the railway tracks, asking them to remove the sheets from their rooftops.

The order was initiated after the officials came across a couple of incidents in which some plastic sheets and dish antenna flew from the rooftops of the hutments during the rain and landed on the tracks, disrupting local trains.