Commuters on Wednesday staged an agitation against the Railways at Badlapur, a distant suburb of Mumbai, demanding restoration of non-air conditioned suburban trains as authorities announced suspension of 10 AC services introduced just last week from Thursday.
Introduction of AC services on the suburban section of the Central Railway (CR) has been facing resistance from a section of commuters. A group of commuters gathered at Badlapur station in Thane district at around 10.30 am and raised slogans demanding that AC suburban trains be replaced with non-air conditioned ones.
However, there was no disruption in train services as a large number of police personnel were deployed at the spot. In the backdrop of the agitation, which comes days after a similar protest at another station in Thane district last week, the CR announced temporary suspension of 10 recently introduced AC trains.