A picture of a lift stained due to paan spitting in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal railway station has seized attention online. Shared by a Reddit handle, r/IndiaSpeaks, the picture shows red stains and smears of tobacco in the lift. The caption on the now-deleted post read, “We don’t deserve good things. We lack civic sense and are absolutely disgusting.” Take a look at the viral picture here: The said picture has left social media users furious, who slammed the commuters. A user, Deepak Kumar Vasudevan, reported it to Railway Seva on X and sought an explanation for it. The post read, “An elevator (aka) lift at #Bhopal railway station?#SwachchtaPakwada.” Sharing an update about the complaint he made, Vasudevan said he received a call from the Bhopal DRM office. “Got a call from Bhopal DRM office acknowledging the issue which was also found by their folks on patrol. They have got the maintenance team to clean the same,” he informed. Reacting to the viral picture, another user commented, "I keep repeating this. We Indians do not deserve nice things." Yet another user wrote, "When some people do spit their paan/gutka/ or anything else, rest of the people should raise their voice and make these people clean this. They’ll learn by that only, not by posts." In 2022, a picture of a hilarious warning poster from a railway station asking commuters to stop spitting went viral. The poster imitated the iconic dialogue from the 1975 blockbuster ‘Deewar’. Take a look: According to reports, Indian Railways spends around Rs 1,200 crore and gallons of water to clean stains caused by people spitting on its premises, especially by pan and tobacco chewers.
