Caretaker Sits On The Floor While Mother & Child Take Seats In Delhi Metro, Why?

People who live in New Delhi generally come across the scenes of many sitting on the floor while traveling in Metro. Co-passengers use to offer seats to the people who actually need the seat. They might not be aware of the fact that it’s also prohibited by law to sit on the floor in the metro. Commuters can be asked to de-board the train and even be fined for taking to the floor.

Commuters sitting on the floor in Metro

How many of you enjoy sitting on the floor while traveling in Metro? How many of you have deliberately emptied a seat to enjoy sitting cross-legged on the floors with dirty footsteps? There won’t be many, right?

But, there are a few people who indulge the annoying habit of breaking the laws for their convenience or because there’s no seat available.

Caretaker sitting on the floor in metro

Recently, a photograph in which mother and her kid were sitting in the seats while their caretaker was sitting on the floor in the metro rail went viral on social media. In this case, the unavailability of the seat was not a problem because there are empty seats that can be seen in the picture. Then why did the caretaker sit on the floor?

This question left several people angered, and also urged others to debate sense into what they didn’t experience. The photograph in question was taken and shared by Twitter user Sanya Dhingra.

Social media today has become an inseparable part of every being’s life. It is a platform which engulfs the entire globe in its fire. A stain on it and everybody knows about it. But the generation should know to utilize it appropriately and make the most out of the technology and its opportunities.

As soon as the user tweeted the picture, there were numerous re-tweets and people started giving their varying point of views and illustrations. The only reason which seems the most appealing that the issue of caste and class conflicts are yet so high, she was being forced to sit away from her employer.

As a society where such differences are glaringly prevalent, it seemed like a normal discussion. They also questioned the photographer was too quick to judge and could have solved the problem by offering the lady the vacant seat next to her.

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Whatever it was, it certainly led to people talking and that alone suggests that only change can weaken the divisions between the privileged and the not-so-privileged. If given a thought, social media holds the power to arise the emotions of millions of citizens and bind them together to work against the same cause.

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