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| For Railways, age is a bar |
| Pandharinath Panthare is celebrating his centennial year but he still has to lie about his age to travel on a railway train.
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| INDIA
, 16-May-2007
1:7:25 AM |
| He is 100 years old but the Indian Railways have denied him a century, since it has no place for three figures to notify age on a railway ticket.
Pandharinath Panthare is celebrating his centennial year but he still has to lie about his age to travel on a railway train.
So the former Railway employee, who wanted to travel to Goa, now has a ticket on the Dadar - Madgaon Jan Shatabdi Express with his age as 98.
''I feel very bad. I have worked so hard all my life. This has hurt me immensely,'' he said.
Software issue
The Central Railway Chief Public Relations Officer Modhgarikar and an official from the Central Railway Information System V K Singh, who designed the software, declined to comment on the issue.
But they said this was the first time such an incident had occurred and that ticket requirements are generally upto the age of 99.
If it increases its fares, then it decreases the age of its passengers.
But for individuals like Panthare, who are fortunate enough to reach their centennial year, the Railways, it seems, is stripping them of a reason to celebrate.
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