Monsoon Railway--2

every year the monsoon rains bring life and renewal to India and trouble to the country's vast network of Railways mr. Fogg opportunity for a couple to pool bridge to body topper to put on the yellow bon chic uh could it be Oh be thinkin I done seeped up would it be hope you thinkin are done this is the continuing story of the Indian Railway and the monsoon in Assam the northeast frontier railway gets more than its fair share of rain and this year has been no exception the Brahmaputra River has risen by more than 3 meters carrying floodwater from China and Bhutan into Assam the lowlands are flooded and many villages and railway lines have been swept away it's a continuing challenge to the railway and its employees Subash Kumar ride is 26 years old he had ambitions to be a rock star but when his father a railway policeman died in service Subash became the head of the family but the railway looks after its own and offered him a job on compassionate grounds this is his first posting since he qualified as an assistant driver 600 miles south in West Bengal the monsoon rains have been inconsistent in light carick poor is an important Junction on the southeastern railway and it's a railway colony the British built colonies like this a century ago to house railway workers and soldiers over 100,000 people live here and all of them are connected with the railway carick brewers station is the hub of the town and its claim to fame is having the longest platform in the world steve D'Cruz is a senior guard on the southeastern railway he's lived and worked here for more than 30 years the continuing drizzle in character hasn't caused any problems so far but it's a stifling 37 degrees and the humidity is rising Kolkata is 75 miles east from here it's hotter and it hasn't rained for weeks you no matter what the weather angle thrives on protests it's as passionately communist as it is democratic so the issues can be international or they can be local the railways do not escape the protesters attention south of Hara station a concrete post is blocking the path of a commuter train it's a job for tapas buggy a troubleshooter for the railway he's passionate about his job and about safety years ago his young brother was killed by a train while crossing the track since then he's dedicated himself to the railway the largest railway network in all Asia the British established the railways in India over a hundred and fifty years ago but their original plans to start the railway here went wrong it was here in Calcutta that the first railway track in India was supposed to be laid but the ship carrying the engine from England sailed right past Calcutta and ended up in Australia and the coaches sank in the Bay of Bengal so the honour of the first line went to Bombay Calcutta line opened about a year later it's no less proud of its hundred and fiftieth anniversary and just as determined to celebrate in Calcutta we were about 16 months late real and the first train on the 15th of August 1854 and I would like to add that this 15 through August date assumes a lot of significance because by you know sort of a pleasant coincidence should I say and certainly an unpremeditated one that that we we attained independence India attained independence on this particular day 15th of August 93 years later so so so this this date of 15th August assumes a lot of importance as far as train running is concerned and we always say that we are proud to share our birthday with independent India it's an irony that the founding of the Indian Railways is celebrated on the same day as the British leaving India independence gave India freedom but so too did the railways the British left behind for the North East frontier railway Independence Day is not just a celebration it's also a grim reminder of late we have seen some challenge being posed by anti-social elements anti-national elements in terms of sabotage recently we've had some bad cases where our trains were targeted by bombs being planted on railway tracks and bombs yes but it's not possible to man each and every culvert is in every bridge period of high people here improperly we support our brother is Positano or will come Joshua Ryan is an urban area that I thought was real pothole or the quadruple don't be sporty she had nine real vodka sod surcharge no cognize that her misfortune some unlucky but after he killed in cognize with his worst spell mommy was the leadership certificate our Petrobras work in Malmo to brag alibi kumari mahajabeen carbonyl very short carita Sahara Kissel master or adding the facade twice many attract ability if a bikini hopefully an abusive and clear at the curvy or full capacity at an Independence Day celebration only a hundred kilometers from here another bomb has blown up a school today killing 13 people including five children not only must Indian Railways deal with bombs and floods during the monsoon they must also prepare for accidents and disasters the sound of a siren means there's been an accident if it sounds five times or more it's a passenger train that's crushed in Caribou division vivex reeve astra is the senior commercial manager and his wife Archana is the senior safety officer as key figures in the disaster management team they know reaction time is a matter of life and death lol our community wherever the accident the same emergency procedures kick into action and getting medical help to the crash scene is their priority as soon as the siren sounds a team of doctors and nurses from across the city rushed to the station to build an emergency medical train this train is supposed to leave within 15 minutes every medical train is a core team of surgeons and doctors and a fully equipped operating theater they can be called into service on any of Indian Railways 40,000 miles of track this is a exercise that we are conducting basically to assess our preparedness on a disaster video disaster involving passenger casualties arrestor Oh what hurry up this is one of the biggest is us two exercises the railways has ever staged over four hundred rail workers and their children take part those without specific tasks play passengers and patients several voluntary organizations even the Armed Forces have been called in to assist to local trains made a head-on collision and to poaches our period we have a injured passengers and dead bodies expected dead is about fifty and I've expected under injured is about 100 we are still not sure the figure we will be able to reach a figure maybe in an hour or so the railway uses the very latest high-tech communication systems and aims to get information about the dead and injured on to its website within an hour doesn't just have to be taken out they have to be given some suffer some kind of Philip entry or enemies have to be made for food and water a stranger after giving them medical aid they have to transported some of them will require serious medical aid have to be given something like that fifty-one dead nineteen dribbles injured previous 34 minor injury is a very huge disaster this is something rare which will not happen even once in a year on the entire Indian Railways fortunately does not never happen on this division but to just touch our preparedness we are carrying out the successes normally the derailments are during monsoon or this period of time so we thought if we plan this exercise at this time it will be more realistic but if there is a real disaster people were supposed to act as they will do during an actual disaster in karat poor life returns to normal it's a time for managers and their families to relax after a grueling day the husband-and-wife team Vivek and Archana the disaster exercise has been a great success although the absence of any rain was disappointing in Calcutta where it hasn't rained at all this month everybody's waiting for a sign that the monsoon rains are finally on their way was what is the pressure zero three nine zero to nine the pattern of the monsoon varies from year to year Kolkata has had to wait a long time for the relief of the rains this year and there are no guarantees but the data at last suggests the rain bearing winds are blowing in the right direction thomna good idea gal I'll make ideal again I like the rain why uh survival and you don't get R in your young girl to survive yeah but in English let me see the rain we get really depressed yeah that's because in England the climatic conditions are different yeah tropical country so a good harvesting we need rain this we're gonna have problem for the coming function lies all all these are seasonal thing it's pro is after the rains especially rice and a staple food is rice in India rice and wheat the sound is inert the sound gives you a very distinctive especially if you are lots of it oh I hate speed I was going to work these things you know they were really rattling it I need stellar I put up my umbrella know that it's a it's a conductor of lightning it's a metal rod which sticks all to know if I said mother get that event then get knocked out throughout August wave upon wave of rain replenishes the parched landscape and in India despite the damage and death it can bring the monsoon is seen as a blessing as the rain sets in is likened to a new vile Maiden ripe and sexy for the young monsoon is the season of romance everybody likes cus know the stock within like this like that with my pants at present I haven't decided for instigating them for three years and fee I want to go up good you see the dishes some of the things which I want it would really have to think goes the family but after three years I'm going to I'm going to tie the knot yeah and I'm telling my mom's mom dad as August draws to a close the rains in Assam begin to ease tonight on the Coromandel Express overnight passengers are unaware of the thunderous downpours in Calcutta but amazingly here in the Southeast region trains around karach pour are unaffected Oh in karat pour today's a big day 100 ticket inspectors led by commercial manager vivex Rev Astra are on their way to a nearby station to swoop on fare Dodgers Indian Railways provide a social service to the nation but it's not as some Indians seem to think a charity eleven million people travel on Indian Railways every day but nobody knows the true number of travelers without tickets many people plead poverty as an excuse others simply take a chance on being part of an uncountable crowd large number of people are travelling in a single train there were a thousand persons and the train stops only for half a minute and even when they get down at the terminal station there will be such a deluge of people you can't check all the tickets thoroughly so basically it is you have to do some kind of sample jacket in between stations so this idea is to put a large contingent of men here at the ANU T station stop the train for two minutes extra do 100 percent checking in literature anyone who travels on our trains must have some Authority for travel either a ticket or a pass and for poor people there is a scheme which permits a very low-cost ikut which cost less than one rupee per day in terms of economic indicator ticket the ticket for significant economic another another inaudible an off-duty policeman has been caught in the net the idea is basically to increase the sale of tickets not NAB without ticket passengers this is only a deterring kind of activity where you put some kind of deterrence that if you travel without ticket then can be fine this man is police person and this is our ticket detect that possible station my name is Norma Montag I'm detective Rizzoli I put your girls coming without asking everybody I'm like a body taken ill of me not on right after the authority I mean assume laboratory I am very sorry good-looking boys coming back into target are indeed affected are the inundation from monsoon rains over the past few days has overwhelmed Kolkata's Victorian drains parts of the city are flooded but miraculously the water stops short of the station and the trains are still running normally as the commuters flow down to the station there's no choice but to run the gauntlet of ticket inspectors many of them are ex boxers like China by which is a useful skill when you have to enforce the rules and breaking those rules is a gamble that could cost you dear the railways rules and regulations stretch to several weighty tones so for any transgression there's a procedure and then appropriate form in bug cheese division a trainee has waived the wrong flag it was a dangerous mistake how idiotic sanity like I'd got another magnet our world is an image agree or agree to just detail you get a C or journeyman right that is strictly modular again have you called his anger pursuing shmakov America love Manor UK old avocado 1902 Uncle Joe become moving a disciple in Africa pelion put Yocum moaning who's me Tamara de la medianoche way eq Cara stop iike wearing it KSK reason k-keep concurrences ekkada nibbling up Emily are they getting put out in the media station kids make their own rules life can be nasty brutish and short crime and drugs destroy many railway children so far the railways have been good to bomb buyer but things will get harder as he grows up the orphans look out for each other as best I can but many rail employees try to help them to basically double disorder prep trauma the idea to UT Apple you do - I'm a survivor did you know with you foresee taking on a minor on the key Khosla it's really not a bloody flower yes even now me today this is cheeky is it the same one kiss you wanna Lanka I mean only the best on achieving your evil daughter okay a guinea tapas Bochy started a charity eight years ago which cares for the destitute and orphans who live on the stations there are some 25 station masters involved all of them colleagues and many of them his friends a litter he dreamed was it buried you know damnable look at June Lula visitor the orphan is for our each other mother getting him now when I lost Yamaha Yamaha povitsky Oh terrible they meet every week after work and there are only two acceptable reasons for non-attendance either you are ill or your mother-in-law has come to stay well you are ported tap us back cheese philosophy of life is that for every problem there exists a solution and is not a runner what is the what is the body after you have to purchase the land boström we have kept the land and what is the cost and then we may think of decided regarding 5000 or 6000 it is not about that why you think about the purchasing of next trip will detect why are you thinking about the problem why I was Denis about about know why this is not a vector - if you think about only problem this is the problem this is the problem nothing nothing we're doing wrong even after his meeting but she is still enthusing encouraging spreading his can do philosophy Judith I'm Martha shop so I go hobby you know from now on javi grab a [ __ ] to take a GD of Legos his food junk about the bag and now you cause you're giving a equivalent go officially who local jacuzzi Antonio community of Lido putalik article taniyama neither point away sir for you David eat a kilo Oh Beethoven oh my god sue Luka racism this sports club is run by China by the ticket inspector who comes off shift each night to teach Street kids to box the railways gave him a job so he could train and compete as a boxer now he's giving these boys a chance to do the same all over Kolkata hundreds of charities run by railway workers are helping the poor late at night in cities towns and villages homeless children find shelter on one of India's 7,000 railway stations the plight of these railway children is widely known and many charities like tapas bug cheese try to give them a new start in life through its social workers in Howrah a charity called future Hope has made contact with Bond Buyer and tonight they have come to take him back to their Calcutta home keep on living ba-ba-ba-ba night money it's only a short ride but a whole world away from life on how a station at future hope vampire is delivered into the care of an old boy and an ex railway kid himself when I came I was 12 plus no I am 30 30 years old I got a 9 plus old daughter's family member and very happy with my life got my new life and I want to see every future boys like me they're happy with different now the monsoon comes as a gently embracing lover and the rain soaks deep into the earth the summer is almost over good morning everybody on behalf of Steve is Secretary of the cemetery committee which helps the Christians of the colony to bury their dead we are talking 6000 rupees for those people who do have the money to spend 6000 rupees we are not charging for those who don't have we are only charging 250 rupees for the people who want to bury that's very cheap i fee generations of railway families rest in peace here thanks to the charity work of railway men like Steve D'Cruz but when he became secretary he found the charity was in crisis its burial funds had vanished Steve decided he was going to get the money back and that meant having a word with the local priest money is a thing anybody could use when it's a when you want money emergency you could use money there's no problem until you show us where it is don't say I used it and is not the ordinary money ten thousand twenty thousand rupees looking good with me a pocket light and I invested ten toes putting hangman's pocket what do you think you carry ten thousand rupees in your pocket I said I think only the Mafia gangsters carry that much of money in the pocket I told this priest was here so he to what do you think you're a gangster isn't he looking for ten thousand rupees as if he were looking but loose let it change in your pocket I because I was told don't be frightening you go ahead it was no records or anything now here for four years kept everything in order and brought the money back wherever it was folks and cajoled and certain the priests and all that and so they gave back all the money and picked was it all back in order the main thing is the money's very safe that's amazing and as a part of the secretary I feel I am NOT doing the correct job of going to the cemetery regularly to check because I do not have time if somebody says that he wants to take up this job also I will be very grateful to them Christie for a couple to food breach the body toppled to Felicity for a duffel to polish the Polish shuffle toe shuffle toe shuffle toe shuffle toe shuffle toe in the land of a million God's the railway naturally has one of its own and the festival on September the 17th comes just as the monsoon is drawing to a close so in loco sheds signal boxes and station platforms rail women give thanks it a lord vishnu karma as you know in he is a Hindu god he is the god of creation he's the architect he is the engineer he is he's the one who is built he's real engineer among among all the gods and so that is why in the railways the the importance of Lord wish of a show karma is is supreme you can see it everywhere and during the vishwakarma puja she's my friend hello hello in Hindu mythology vishwakarma designed all the flying chariots of the gods vishwakarma stands for human ingenuity every nut bolt hammer and wheel are all blessed by him pick idiot vishwakarma has helped them and their railway to survive another year and another monsoon all over India everybody on the railways is in a holiday mood and after they puja they party every time I looked at this bottle gospel I was so happy I'm gonna be damn sad with him the monsoon has visited in all her incarnations and she's left behind the land refreshed and renewed she's given India a new life and she has also taken it away life on the railways returns to normal I am going to sing a song on the railways and it is from the film dose titties in Hindi and I am going to just monochrome I was think there's two lines from that song gari bula rahi hey CT barge or a he hey gari bula rahi hey CT barge or a he colonies in the gay telethia daughter he hey got a bull or a CP but it means the train is calling you it's whistling shall nah he's in the gear as you walk you walk de life walked through throughout your life and Chelsea he's our he like the frame moves the life also moves that that is the salmon summary of these two lines a life on the railway for tapas Bochy was his dream job now he's in his prime and moving up the hill a devil I mean to know how to you amigas vision basically are marked you tonic bc de una cancion across to her she only composure let's go meet our mentality they were a mark to subdue superior need minutes at the assailant was my neighbor Chima Scalia that's the Pilate maneuver normally be a locally-owned it's up to you to look below so official Oliver's a politician of Amano problematize Kitchener archaeology to everyone I don't go to vegetarian at leisure disappeared do you the pitied her father to me you know technology the order we do steve de cruz is reaching the end of his career the future may be uncertain but retirement and a railway pension are guaranteed i'll be returning on the 30th of november 2008 and then I don't belong to the railways anymore and live my own life get up and I feel like fall asleep and I'd be like no time I don't have to keep any timing I hope I don't get put my life oh yes very fast light muscle - Steve had a friend who retired to England but he used to return to India every six months and he should live like a king on the same pender the dole reaches together they call it the dole No so he's to come and live like a king yeah he said with that money I owned all the soy there but oh yeah I live like a king somebody does my marketing somebody does that I got a vehicle to take me here I don't have a pond in vehicle I just Paul had a weekend I lived a king but not with the same I wouldn't be a king if I'm living day at me like a beggar and Annie was a lump character he's dead at Gershwin Junction the train is ready to leave Subash kumar i diesel assistant driver may dream of being a rock star but in reality he is the rock of his fatherless family it's our traditions to think about your responsibilities and to look to what's a family that's always man people think in the hair in that big e long with long your wake Abdus type of roots very the screws without there is he doing her response his responsibilities you sure they're there things in that way and I am doing my responsibilities let's see if my luck favors there naturally absolutely good driver and I love my people telex the company unless they will press but they are going to press me oh yeah he's a good diver I would like to dedicate this number to all the in place of the railway department and not a railway department so here the number goes one two pull we run this railway as a part of the service to the society profit comes later this railway has given me so much in my entire life to have to give back something so that is only possible when it is state hold a private organization cannot have a corporate culture which traditionally for last 150 years from the British area to post independence area we have been not sharing with ourselves with our forefathers the sense of belonging has come to us this year the monsoon claimed more than a thousand lives and disrupted a further 63 million there were over 100 train accidents and in Assam alone there were 83 breaches of the track by float according to the weatherman it was just an average monsoon

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Published: Tue Jul 31 2012