Who says Mumbai doesn’t have a heart? The Central Railway (CR) yesterday announced that it had sanctioned the building of a second foot over-bridge at Vangani station near Badlapur — to make sure the 350-odd visually impaired residents of the area did not have to cross the railway tracks and risk their lives every day. The decision was promoted by a petition signed by 6,273 local residents, which was submitted to CR officials recently. Students of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) also shot a documentary on the plight of these blind men and women and showed it to CR officials, forcing them to act.

The absence of a foot over-bridge compels the visually impaired to cross tracks, thereby risking their lives. Pic/Shrikant Khuperkar