A fortnight-long awareness campaign against keeping objects on the railway track has been launched by the Railway Protection Force (RPF), Mysuru, after a tragedy was averted recently by an alert loco pilot who managed to bring the train to a halt immediately after noticing a wooden log and steel sleeper on tracks on Mysuru-Nanjangud section.
A team of RPF personnel will be going around schools and other educational institutions, premises in the industrial area of Tandavapura and other public places including Panchayat Development Officer (PDO) to create awareness about the possible threat to life and safety of train passengers such acts can cause.
It may be mentioned here that the RPF apprehended three youths, all employees of a paper manufacturing plant situated close to the railway track, for placing the wooden log and steel sleeper on the railway track on November 12 evening. However, loco pilot Ashwini Kumar, who was operating the train between Chamarajanagar and Mysuru, noticed the obstruction in time to bring the train to a halt and avert a potential disaster.
