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COVID-19 tales: ‘A government official has to help keep system going'
Updated On: 21 March, 2021 09:34 AM IST | Mumbai | Aastha Atray Banan
A Subba Rao, Western Railways' motorman, who drove first post-lockdown local, makes it to our list of 20 faces who defied fear and disease to follow their heart or duty and emerge 'the first'
A Subba Rao, who hails from Vishakapatnam, but made Mumbai his home two decades ago, says that returning to duty on June 15, 2020, to drive a morning local from Virar to Churchgate was an experience unlike any in his life. Pics/shadab Khan
Drove First Post-Lockdown Local
A Subba Rao, 47, Mumbai
Motorman, Western Railways
It [driving the local train in Mumbai for the first time after the lockdown was announced] was a completely different feeling. The whole world was going through a change, as were we. I knew I had to do my job properly as that was my duty. If I got scared of contracting the virus, then the machine wouldn’t work.
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