These are the days when the typical TTEs in the Railways take the passengers as ATM machines for granted. Various incidents of TTE demanding hundreds and thousands of money is experienced by every individual personally.

Despite such money suckers, there are certain public servants who do their duty and additionally possesses some extraordinary human traits, who in simple crave to help the co-human beings.

Such an incident took place in Bellary, Karnataka. The incident came to limelight with a heartfelt post from a Facebook user, Vishnu Vardhan.

Vishnu Vardhan described the TTE as “stern yet polite”. The TTE was checking the passengers’ tickets on the Palakkad-bound train, in this process, Vardhan noticed the TTE having a conversation with a family of five. He wrote, the family was on a pilgrimage to Velankanni in Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam district, for which they were to catch a train from Coimbatore station.

After having a glance at the tickets, the TTE understood that they date they booked their tickets for is quite wrong and their required train has already left the station. But this TTE didn’t demand fine, didn’t either ouster them out of the train, instead he helped the family and such acts of kindness and compassion is quite a beautiful example to believe that humanity exists.

The post from Vishnu Vardhan read:

“Yesterday as I was travelling in train to Palakkad,this TTE was doing routine stuff, was stern yet polite….Never felt he was extraordinary….
But after sometime, a family of five, seemingly from some interior place/village got in….The TTE checked their tickets which was till Coimbatore and asked where they wanted to go from there….They replied they were going for a pilgrimage to Velankanni and had to catch a train from Coimbatore at 1 am….The TTE enquired for those tickets and said this….”If I tell you something, you may all feel disappointed…..The ticket you have reserved is for 25th….1am train…..That had already left today early morning….You need to have reserved tickets for the train on 26th to travel by the train from Coimbatore….” Hearing this the family including 3 small kids almost lost all their happiness….
It was then that the TTE proved himself to be extraordinary. He said “I shall try to help you book tickets online”….This is him helping them with online booking in his own mobile….
When we think of our nation and its development, small things like a change of attitude to ‘help fellow countrymen’ are the ones that reinstate our belief in governments and public systems….and makes one feel proud as an Indian….
#VandeMataram!
Courtesy nityamohanan”

And this is how Social Media reacted:

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