Updated: Share Article AAA Demand for providing additional safety measures for railway employees so as to ensure their safety during the pandemic has increased after the death of a railway gatekeeper on Wednesday. Dakshin Railway Employees’ Union said that had the railway administration taken adequate precaution the life of gatekeeper, Muthukaruppan (32), could have been saved. A father of two children, he was deployed at a railway level crossing near Tiruppuvanam railway station. “We demand that the administration takes safety measures on a war-footing,” said DREU divisional secretary, R. Sankaranarayanan. He charged that the administration that had provided masks, gloves, face shields and sanitisers to the railway staff during the first wave of COVID-19, had failed to take similar measures during the second wave that was claiming more lives.