Every day crores of people travel in Indian trains. Keeping in view the convenience of the passengers, Indian Railways is operating thousands of trains. The network of Indian Railways is spread across the country. It works to connect the marginal areas of the country with the big metros. It is often seen that the passengers traveling on the train unnecessarily pull the train chain to stop at a particular place. Pulling off a train chain without any reason is illegal. You may be fined for doing so. Due to the pulling of the chain, other passengers traveling on the train have to face many problems. Indian Railways allows train chain pulling only under certain circumstances. Let's know about them in detail -
If a passenger is traveling on the train. On the other hand, if the child of the passenger is left behind at any station. In this situation, he can pull the alarm chain off the train.
If there is a fire during the journey on the train. In this case, you can pull the alarm chain. On the other hand, if an elderly or disabled person is boarding the train and the train starts running at the same time.
In this situation also the alarm chain of the train can be pulled. Apart from this, if a person has a high fever or a heart attack while traveling on the train.
In such a situation, the train can be stopped by pulling the alarm chain. Train chain pulling can be done only under the above-mentioned circumstances. If you unnecessarily pull the alarm chain of the train. In this case, legal action can be taken against you.
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