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	Over 50,000 visit the Lifeline Express at the National Rail Museum, New Delhi





	The Lifeline Express (LLE) is included as Chapter One in the prescribed Standard X English Workbook of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools. There are 6,146 CBSE schools in India with a total of a million students who have studied about the LLE since it first appeared in school textbooks. An article on the Lifeline Express is also in the ‘Australian Geography Teacher’ for study in all schools in Australia. The Lifeline Express was on display at the National Rail Museum in New Delhi from November 7 to 10, 2004. It was way beyond anyone’s imagination to see a crowd of over 50,000 students, teachers and parents trooping in to view with excitement and eagerness writ large over their faces. “Superb! Magnificent! Unexpected” were some of the remarks as their eyes opened wide, taking in the state-of-the-art equipment meant for providing free surgeries to the rural poor. The questions were numerous - “How do you fund the train?” “Does the Government help?” and, “Is this the actual train that goes into the villages?” While the little ones were very curious the older students were armed with notebooks to record the experience. Even though the display was held on working days, people found the time to film the event with their handycams and cameras. So immense was the gathering that the organisers requested Impact to extend the exhibition by an additional day. Several dignitaries from India and abroad visited the train. Amongst them were many Doctors who had donated their services and operated on the LLE and now seized the opportunity to show the train to their families and friends. The Rail Museum stated that this LLE display drew the largest crowd ever to visit its precincts.


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