A week after seven commuters died while travelling on the footboard of overcrowded EMUs in two different occasions, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) along with Government Railway Police (GRP) organised an awareness programme at St Thomas Mount railway station on Tuesday.

File photo of people footboarding on the train

Chennai:

More than a hundred school students participated in the programme in which the officials urged the youth, school children and the other commuters to stop travelling on the footboard. A rally was also held. 

Earlier, Railway DSP Louis Amudhan had announced that people who are travelling on footboard would face severe punishment. The Railway Claims Tribunal had awarded compensation to the families of those killed and injured in Tuesday’s train accident at St Thomas Mount station.