When there are more senior citizens than the quota, then some young people should help the elders by sacrificing their lower berths. This is being courteous and sensitive to genuine needs.

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Yeah. I get the point. The word 'beware' probably made me go the wrong way.

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Thats good of you to offer lower berth to senior citizens for sleeping in the night. That itself is courteous and that is what I meant

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Yeah we have to be sensitive and understand. These days knee problem is rampant across elderly and climbing to UB is difficult. Not sure if we have any innovation going on to solve this in new coaches :)

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true, in my case. although i am not yet a senior citizen but am tall and obese (lot more than overweight) and lots of kind people have helped me in sleeping on the lower berth in both First AC and second AC. Climbing to the upper berth is impossible, not just difficult. Life is like that

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Nice comment. Have you seen those nice ladder in First AC? I have seen its pictures in some trains.

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oh boss. i am 160 kg. even the nice ladders dont help me. once, i had to request a person in a lower berth in 2nd ac to switch over to my first ac upper berth with the informal blessings of the tte. :)

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Yeah, I see the point.
I just meant this ladder as shown in one of the picture in the below link. Yeah TTE help is handy!
click here

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