It's not just cool inside Mumbai Metro, it's wet too. Air-conditioning ducts of coaches once again started leaking water inside on Tuesday afternoon. On the other hand, passengers have started complaining about the trains' non-functional air-conditioning system.
Dombivali resident Bharat Kumar Bhandary on Tuesday was one of the commuters travelling in Mumbai Metro who saw the problem and brought it to the notice of the officials.
Talking to dna, Bhandary said, "This Metro was Versova-bound; water was dripping inside its second coach. The problem persisted throughout the journey." He added that the dripping was in coach number '021M'.
Metro officials, however, dismissed the problem as condensation from the air conditioners, not leakage due to rains that lashed the metropolis on Tuesday.
The rains have hit Metro hard, with the concourse level roof leaking directly on bag scanners, forcing the security personnel to discontinue scanning of bags. Tuesday wasn't the first time when leaking roofs at Metro stations resulted in tarpaulin being put on security machines.
Commuters have also been complaining about the air-conditioning systems not working, resulting in a stuffy environment. Danish Raj Ojha tweeted on Saturday: #Mumbaimetro the Ac is not working in the versova – ghatkopar metro !! And it's stinking badly inside :p
Similar incident happened on Tuesday with Ravindra Shetty tweeting: "@MumMetro @danishojha very hot, 15min back got dwn @Sakinaka frm Ghatkopar-Versova train, seems ac fan blowing, no cooling. Don't knw train no.
Questioning the quality of the rakes and the leakage, Bhandary said the authorities have already increased the fare once and they want to hike it further, but how can they justify the increase with such quality of metro rakes?
This isn't the first incident of leakage inside Metro coaches. On July 2, one of ducts had leaked akin to rainfall inside the train. Video and photographs of the July 2 leakage had gone viral on micro-blogging websites. You can read all about it on http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-state-of-the-art-mumbai-metro-suffers-leakage-due-to-rain-in-first-month-1999169
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