1. Presently additional railings are installed at 6 Metro stations on priority basis. These stations are Laxmi Nagar, Preet Vihar, Vaishali, Akshardham, Kaushambi and Nirman Vihar.
2. Railing work at 19 stations which are also identified as suicide prone are likely to be completed within a month. Some of them are Seelampur, Janakpuri West, Rajendra Place, Dilshad Garden, R K Puram, Sultanpur, M. G. Road, Jahangirtpuri, Kirti Nagar, Noida Sector 16 Govindpuri, Uttam Nagr East etc.
3. Besides this, DMRC will soon be launching a public service initiative with the help of an NGO to sensitize its frontline staff (those sitting at Customer care and manning the stations) to identify such people in Metro premises and guide them to the volunteers of NGO for all possible help.
4. DMRC is also going to put up posters and distribute literature highlighting the importance of life and how the people under depression or suicidal tendencies can contact on the NGO’s helpline no. 011-23389090 which is working 2pm to 10 pm on weekdays i.e, Monday to Friday and from 10am to 10 pm on weekends i.e, Saturdays & Sundays.
5. The NGO is also planning to make this helpline no. 24X7 for the help of such people.
6. DMRC has also put up barriers on the platforms marking the area beyond which passengers are not allowed to go and guards deployed at stations are put on vigil to keep an eye on platform areas.
