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Delhi Metro tells high court 'nominal' fee charged for drinking water, toilets at stations to prevent misuse of facilities

Press Trust of India • May 13, 2018, 15:19:40 IST
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The Delhi Metro told the high court in New Delhi that a nominal fee is charged for drinking water and toilets at its stations to prevent the misuse of these facilities.

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Delhi Metro tells high court 'nominal' fee charged for drinking water, toilets at stations to prevent misuse of facilities

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro told the high court in New Delhi that a nominal fee is charged for drinking water and toilets at its stations to prevent the misuse of these facilities. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), however, also said that someone who is unable to pay the charges will be provided drinking water or use of toilets free of cost if they approach the staff at the stations. The submissions by the DMRC were made in an affidavit filed before a bench of Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice AK Chawla which is hearing a lawyer’s appeal against a single judge’s order that a commuter on the metro does not have a right to free drinking water. [caption id=“attachment_4361111” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]Delhi metro Representational image. PTI[/caption] The single judge had said that a person has a right to drinking water, but not for free. The order had come on a plea by advocate Kush Kalra who had sought directions to the DMRC to provide free drinking water and toilets at its stations. In his plea, filed through advocate Kush Sharma, Kalra also alleged that there is a lack of dustbins inside several metro stations. Refuting the claims of the petitioner, the metro in its affidavit has said it has set up water ATMs at its stations which provide water at a charge of Rs 2 per glass. Apart from that, there are kiosks and shops which sell drinking water, it said and added that commuters are free to carry their own drinking water. It also said that it has put in place transparent dustbins in all the stations. The DMRC in its affidavit has further stated that its stations cannot be equated with airports as commuters stay at a station for around five minutes, while they have to wait for hours at airports. The affidavit was filed in response to the court’s query on the last date of hearing regarding the DMRC’s policy to not provide free drinking water to the passengers. The bench on the last date had 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”. “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 had said.

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