Apathy of Nallasopara station Master

Today while i was traveling from my home to Nallasopara, a railway station in Mumbai at around 7 pm, I was caught in mad rush at railway station bridge. There is only one foot over bridge at Virar end and it was too much crowded. It was so bad that at any moment it could have turned into a stampede. People were rushing in from all ends on the over bridge and they were all stuck-up. It was worse that what i have seen at Dadar Station on 6th Dec. Considering the seriousness, i visited Station Master's office and informed him about the situation. and requested him to keep one or two policeman to control the crowd. To my surprise he said that he was aware of the problem and reason. He further added that it happens every Sunday evening. When asked about the possible police help, he said he had informed the police but they did not have anybody to help since they were deputed at other places (he was referring to the date- 6th Dec)

Further, he advised me to go ahead and stand up there on the bridge and direct/control the people. And thoroughly the tone was irritating over my suggestion. It quite disappointed me, there were no police men on station despite it is known fact that there are some miscreants had created trouble in the past. I think it is responsibility of station-master to handle such situation, make every effort to control it and not run away from it. It is better to prevent such stampede-situation than just reading news about stampede and the deaths. We better should not have such station masters.