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A video of an Indian Railways staff discarding garbage from a moving train has triggered outrage on social media. Shared by an X handle @moronhumour, the video shows the staff emptying the trash can outside the toilet area on the train and dumping it on the railway tracks.
The video seems to have been recorded by passengers. In the viral video, one of the passengers confronts the staff saying, “Look this uncle is dumping the garbage on the tracks.”
“Why are you doing this, brother?” another passenger asks while the man continues to dump the trash outside the train.
“Look at the condition of the Indian Railways and they promise a better India!” another passenger says in the video. “The trash was full. Where should we dump it during the nighttime,” retorts the staff with a smile.
Sharing the video, the X handle wrote, “Indian Railways must find this officer and suspend him at once. As a punishment, he must be posted at station and made to clean the platforms and pick up trash from the tracks. Railways is better off with one such unthankful and dirty employee less. He’s the real trash.”
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With nearly 50,000 views, the video triggered a backlash over the poor management of the Indian Railways. “This is the norm in all trains. Where do you think the trash goes? I saw the same thing on Ayodhya Kashi Vande Bharat and got the above reply,” a user wrote. “Considering the number of people traveling, shouldn’t there be more space for trash. I have always seen the cans overflowing,” another user commented.
“The calmness on his face while throwing the garbage on the tracks. Undeterred, unapologetic human being,” a third user said.
A similar video was widely circulated in November last year. The video showed a railway employee tossing a bag of garbage from a moving train. Instead of placing the garbage into a waste bag, he dumped it out of the train, spilling it all onto the tracks.
