Bengaluru: Mohandas Pai requests BMRCL to set up safety gates in metro stations

The cases of attempted suicide on metro station has been on a steady rise in Bengaluru. 8 cases have been reported in the last 8 months alone. 

57-year-old Naveen Kumar died after jumping onto the metro tracks recently. This caused hours-long delay and inconvenience to other passengers on board as well. A 35-year-old died by approaching a metro train at 5:45 PM  at the Doddakallasandra Station in Bengaluru on August 3rd. 

Only the Kempegowda Majestic metro station is being thoroughly monitored by security officials. Passengers have expressed concern over the lack of security arrangements in other metro stations. 

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The metro tracks do not have safety gates that would prevent such occurrences. The Chairman of the Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE) Mohandas Pai had a suggestion along the same lines for the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL). Mohandas Pai had tagged the Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah and the Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter) requesting installation of safety gates. He had also requested for allocation of a portion of the Indian railways safety budget for this purpose. He had also tagged the Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this regard. 

@OfficialBMRCL pl put safety gates in all stations. @DKShivakumar@CMofKarnataka@ChristinMP_ We need some budget from Indian railways safety budget too @AshwiniVaishnaw@narendramodi@PMOIndiahttps://t.co/09IB9D9DJY

— Mohandas Pai (@TVMohandasPai)

@OfficialBMRCL pl put safety gates in all stations. @DKShivakumar@CMofKarnataka@ChristinMP_ We need some budget from Indian railways safety budget too @AshwiniVaishnaw@narendramodi@PMOIndiahttps://t.co/09IB9D9DJY

— Mohandas Pai (@TVMohandasPai) August 3, 2024

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