Indian Railways delivers camel milk for autistic child

April 16, 2020

The Indian Railways, which has deployed its manpower for transporting essential items across the country, has transported 20 litres of camel milk to a family in Mumbai after a woman complained about its non-availability for her three-and-a-half-year-old autistic child, who is allergic to goat, cow and buffalo milk. The good work of the Indian Railways came to light when senior IPS officer Arun Bothra tweeted about it.

Renu Kumari, the mother of the child, had tagged Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a tweet, in which she highlighted her son's plight. "Sir I have a 3.5-year old child suffering from autism and severe food allergies. He survives on Camel Milk and limited quantity of pulses. When lockdown started I didn't have enough camel milk to last this long. Help me get Camel Milk or its powder from Sadri (Rajasthan)," she had said in the tweet.

When contacted, Chief Passenger Traffic Manager, North Western Railway (NWR), Tarun Jain, said that he came to know about the matter after IPS officer Bothra tweeted about it. Jain said he immediately discussed the issue with senior officials in Rajasthan's Ajmer. And then it was decided that the special parcel cargo train running between Ludhiana and Bandra in Mumbai will be made to stop at the Rajasthan's Falna station despite it not being a stoppage to pick the package of milk for delivery to the family in Mumbai. Jain said that after taking permission from the appropriate authority, the train was stopped and the camel milk was delivered to the woman at Bandra.