Keys, shopping bags, laptops, gold watches and hold your breath – children. The ‘Lost and Found’ section of Namma Metro can brag about the usual and the bizarre.
On Thursday, a young child was reportedly separated from his parents.
After alighting at their designated station, they realised that he had been left behind inside the train.
The child was eventually reunited with the parents.
There are several instances of people leaving behind bags full of items bought fresh off the shelf – more often than not in trains originating at Sampige Road station, which is next to a mall.
“There is no pattern. Some days we hear of nothing, sometimes there are several cases,” said a member of the staff at one of the stations.
Like all popular modes of public transport, passengers losing items is commonplace in the Namma Metro, which has seen a surge in commuters ever since the entire East-West corridor was completed.
Two ‘Lost and Found’ centres have been set up at Baiyappanahalli and Yeshwantpur stations.
A member of the staff manning the centre said, “We check the trains for any item left behind, which is brought to us. Claimants come to one of the outlets where their claims are verified.”
If lost items are not claimed within 24 hours, the owners are expected to go to Baiyappanahalli, which has a store for such items, they added.
Notice boards in stations also list such items, BMRCL officials added.
However, a passenger who was frantically looking for his lost car keys, which were later found at Deepanjali Nagar station, said ‘Lost and Found’ sections must be set up in all stations.
