The Hindu — Problems faced by jawans

Respected sir
This is Dr Sandeep medical officer of CRPF. I have been detailed for election duty U.P & Manipur. We finished 3 phases in U.P & going to Manipur. Actually there is massive movement of forces from UP to Manipur by 20 special trains. Me along with 800 jawans (CRPF, ITBP, &CISF) are travelling in the special train scheduled 6am departure at etawah on 22nd Feb and arrival at Bokajan on 24th Feb 4am which started in ethawa railway station U.P on 22/02/17 at 7am. At present our train with 18 coach carrying 13 coys is at Katihar 2:00pm.
We are facing many problems in this train. According to the MHA order each coy should be given 2 sleeper coaches to accommodate our jawans & our luggage (store, arms, mess, weapons, bedding, dry ration), with only one coach(that to general coach) jawans don't even have place to sleep. Our jawans are sitting in the train since 24hrs & it will take more 72hr to reach our destination. According to MHA we should be given 26 coaches(sleeper) but we were dumped in 18coaches(general) imagine how miserable it is. When coming to food it's 2:00pm now we haven't received our breakfast & 72hrs of our journey is leftover.
We will reach Kishanganj by 6pm if you can send any media person to railway station you can take the video footage of our problems.
Kindly do the needful sir

Dr Sandeep
Medical officer
CRPF
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