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President's award for rail tragedy motorman
Updated On: 30 October, 2009 07:50 AM IST | | Somita Pal
R Ramchandran, the motorman who died in the Thane local train tragedy last week, has been recommended for the President's bravery award.
R Ramchandran, the motorman who died in the Thane local train tragedy last week, has been recommended for the President's bravery award.
N Haridasan, divisional secretary of the National Railway Mazdoor Union, which has an affiliation with 75 per cent of the motormen, said, "Ramchandran deserves the President's award because had it not been for him, and his immediate action of slamming the emergency brakes, the number of fatalities would have gone up."
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