Government employees from railway ticket collectors to schoolteachers were asked to participate and help meet sterilisation quotas.
In fact, as Vikas Bajaj of The New York Times noted, adjusted for inflation, railway ticket prices have fallen about 48 percent in the past nine years.
O.K., now put that comparison aside and take a look at how much costs have increased in the past nine years – the period over which there has been no increase in railway ticket prices.
His second shock came at Pietermaritzburg when, holding a first-class railway ticket, he was pushed out of the compartment by a white guard and left shivering in a dark waiting room.
Ragini Sharma, the widow of S. K. Sharma, a railway ticket collector: She expressed gratitude to the president and said, though it was delayed, but "we did get justice," according to Samay Live, a television news station.
His mother, who refused to have the News of the World in the house, wanted him to have a safe job as a railway ticket office clerk, and never fully accepted his chosen career.
