Mumbai: 12-year-old’s little step is a giant leap for railways

Child’s empathy moves Western Railway to make trilingual signs on trains; CR says it, too, will follow suit

A 12-year-old girl’s observation on signage on local trains has led to change in the city’s lifeline. During one of her journeys, Humairah G Moriwala, a Std VIII student from Andheri, noticed that the ‘II’ written in Roman numerals outside second class compartments was causing inconvenience to uneducated commuters.

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