I had the misfortune of travelling by II AC - 2 tier - Seat 44, on the 8th of Sept. '08 from New Delhi to Chennai. And right from the word go the experience was bad. Firstly the seats were full of dust. Ask the coach attendant for the Sweeper (Safaiwalla) and he says, sorry Sir, We will clean it tomorrow morning. Why was not the coach swept and swabbed clean in the first place, ofcourse the answer is that the contract staff engaged in Delhi are useless. Moreover the fan in the said seat could not be run because of screeching sound that it created and hence we had to switch it off. And the worse was yet to come... come night there are the cockroach eclairs for you, me, all of us including our Hon'ble Railway Minister, who perhaps hardly ever travels by these trains, perhaps the 2nd AC is for the poor rascals who can be fleeced for no reason. Trust me its cockroach cockroach and all other insects, a biologists haven to be in the 2nd AC. Hey this is not the fate of some halthu falthu train its supposed to be a train where they charge you superfast charges for no reason. Ofcourse a week ago I had another experience of the cockroaches and other insects all over... that was in the Ghulab Nawaz Express while I was enroute Jaipur to Delhi. God my me looks like the Indian Railways have decided to give us lessons in cockroach management! Yet another feather and subject for our Railway Minister to address students from Harvard... Cockroach Management!
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