Times Groups’ Gujarati portal, “imgujarat” yesterday shared a video of the Gandhinagar-Ahmedabad metro train breaking down on the track. It said that the passengers reached the station after walking on the tracks.
અમદાવાદઃ રબારી કોલોની પાસે ખોટકાઈ મેટ્રો, પગપાળા ચાલીને સ્ટેશને પહોંચ્યા મુસાફરો!#ahmedabadmetro @CMOGuj #amdavadmetro #metrorail #Mega pic.twitter.com/xL2qfEJPWF
— iamgujarat (@imgujarat) May 29, 2019
Popular Gujarati newspaper Sandesh, too, published the news mocking the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro that how the metro had a ‘glitch’ and passengers were forced to walk on the track.
અમદાવાદ મેટ્રોની નીકળી ગઇ હવા! મુસાફરો પુલ પર રઝળ્યા,
જુઓ વીડિયો : https://t.co/j6uRIipckp#Ahmedabad #Metro #AhmedabadMetroTrain #Stopped pic.twitter.com/IbZvLAnVZC
— Sandesh (@sandeshnews) May 29, 2019
The tweet, which is in Gujarati, reads, “Ahmedabad Metro fails, passengers left stranded on the bridge”. A video was also shared on social media trying to mock the Gujarat development model.
,@AltNews – is this real video of Ahmedabad Metro or Fake News? #GujaratModelOfDevelopment pic.twitter.com/fDQ2vGvZwg
— Professional Sevak (@Prof_Sevak) May 29, 2019
However, as reported online portal DeshGujarat.com, the video which is widely in circulation on social media is actually a mock drill carried out by Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) and that the ‘passengers’ were actually GMRC staffers. As per the report, the mock drill was held as per safety manual and was carried out to study possible evacuation in case the train faces such glitch. Gujarati magazine Chitralekha also confirmed that the same was a mock drill.
