Delhi Metro | High Court pulls up DMRC for not providing water and toilets facilities at stations
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday pulled up the Delhi Metro for not providing free drinking water or toilet facilities to commuters inside the stations, asking whether it has lost “a sense of human problems”. “Have you brought this no water/toilet policy from the West? Look at the volume of traffic here. Crores of people travel in the metro and if someone develops a medical problem, what will happen? Where will he go? By the time he moves out of the station, it will be too late. What is the thought behind this policy,” a bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and A K Chawla said. “You go anywhere in the world, there are toilets in the metro stations. In London, the volume of traffic is not as much as we have. Show us the data and reasons for not providing these facilities. You have this policy in place for the last 14 years,” the bench said. The observations came during the hearing of an appeal challenging a single judge’s order that a ...