Mumbai doesn’t ask for much when it comes to trains. Citizens want more trains with a little more room to breathe. They don’t want seats with leather cushions or air-conditioned coaches. What they want is trains that run on time and don’t break down. They want safety inside the coaches and on the tracks.

The growing number of deaths on tracks and in overcrowded trains, inadequate amenities and safety measures, have added to the trials of the people who toil hard to keep the country’s financial capital working 24x7. There are intelligent and workaholic people in the railways who have been trying their best to do away with deficiencies, but the government’s apathy doesn’t let them stretch beyond a limit.