It was a rough ride on the Madgaon Mumbai AC double-decker train recently. After the air conditioner of coach C1 malfunctioned, commuters tore out the window panes, a report stated in this paper. There have been numerous problems on the network and such chaos has become a daily occurrence. The Ganpati festival has further added to the burden of the single line Konkan Railway network.

On Tuesday morning, agitated passengers held up an overcrowded train for two hours, as there was no space to sit. That action had a snowball effect, and led to further delays in the delicately balanced operational plan, which sees over 200 trains pass through the network every single day. Last week, a Kochuveli train that started from Mumbai on its way to Kerala had to be detained at Roha after the general class passengers crowded an AC compartment. The RPF had to summon the Roha police to get the crowd out.