To ensure that flying plastic sheets used to cover homes do not affect Central Railway punctuality, especially during heavy rains, 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.

A report in the paper cited how the order was initiated after some incidents in which some plastic sheets and dish antenna flew from hutment roofs and landed on the tracks. This disrupted local trains. Locals have claimed that they have received notices to remove the sheets, because of which they will have to endure leakage in their homes.