A boy said he went to Kalyan railway station in Maharashtra to drop his family off for their train. The train was originally scheduled to leave at 12 noon, but later they were told it would arrive at 2 PM.
He had bought a platform ticket and waited with his family. However, the train kept getting delayed. Around 5 PM, when he was helping his family board the train and was about to leave, a TTE stopped him and asked for his platform ticket.
He showed the ticket, but the TTE told him that a platform ticket is valid only for 2 hours. Since more than 2 hours had passed, he was fined ₹500.
The boy then raised a simple question: if the train was delayed for several hours because of the railway, why should the passenger be held responsible for staying at the station?
He had purchased a valid platform ticket and was only there to drop his family.
If the delay was caused by the railway, shouldn’t there be some consideration for passengers and their families who are forced to wait longer?
It raises a genuine question about whether passengers should be fined when they remain at the station because of a railway delay.
The widest-reaching impact of @IndianExpress' Election Commission investigation yet.
10 days after our investigation into the rupture inside the Election Commission, the poll watchdog has told all 20 states where SIR is over to run a “special drive” to bring back voters “left out” of the rolls.
State CEOs have been told to identify voters deleted as unmapped or for “logical discrepancy” and that BLOs should go house to house to help bring them back. They will use Form 6 to apply for inclusion of such “left out” voters.
And the question added to Form 6 in July, asking whether your parents were on the last SIR roll, which one Commissioner called “unauthorised/illegal,” now applies only during the “SIR phase.”
What does that mean? In the 20 states where SIR is over, “left out” voters and first-time voters will use the plain statutory Form 6, without the question seeking details of their family’s link to the last SIR.
Reporting with @vallabhozarkarr.
https://t.co/iZJTYJCwUZ via @IndianExpress
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For a run-out or stumping, the fielder must have complete control of the ball. Merely touching it with the hand as it breaks the stumps is not enough.
What I want in this country :-
1. Election every 4 years instead of 5 , will put more work pressure on the ministers due to lesser time
2. Complete removal of Stray Dogs from the roads
3. No VVIP treatment for politicians , except President , PM & vice president.
4. CCTV installed in majority of public areas.
5. Removal of all these free schemes Yojana like laadli behan etc
6. For Delhi NCR complete WFH in winters due to pollution, removal of construction in this time period
7. Every Sunday these ministers should listen to the complaints of people instead of this Mann ki baat
8. Removal of all these wires from the poles and make them underground
9. No Jatt / Gujjar or any name on the vehicles
10. Give importance to other sports also apart from Cricket
11. All the ministers should have a Bachelor degree atleast
12. Ministers should retire once they reach 75 , they should not be in any position after this age
13. No more unnecessary Taxes like UPI etc
14. When any ministers gives promises to people during election , they should be attached to Lie Detector machines
15. There should be mandatory 5 day working , no 6 day at all cost.
Forget about comparing India with the US or Japan. This is Malaysia at present day, a country which remained under foreign rule for 446 years.
I'm telling this again, we're being scammed. We can achieve all these if we had honest Politicians.
The Election Commission of India is under fire like never before.
The SIR has struck 13 crore names off draft rolls, putting the EC at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t.
HOWEVER, what nobody knew: through that same period, some of the sharpest questions were being asked from inside.
Out today, after months of work. Our #ExpressInvestigation 🧵
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