mumbai as commuters waited for trains to arrive at thane station on wednesday a bunch of students trooped in posters in hand the youngsters went across to commuters individually urging them to travel safely and not risk their lives on the tracks rooftops or footboards a team of uniformed cops stood a distance away watchful but not interrupting with deaths on the railways continuing unabated day after day security agencies have roped in students to drill sense into incorrigible commuters over 3300 people died on the railways in 2015 55 of them had been crossing tracks when they were knocked down by trains the core idea is communication so that commuters know what is hazardous when a policeman addresses commuters it comes across as a regulation but when students convince them the impact could be greater said grp commissioner madhukar pandey on wednesday a group of collegegoers used microphones to address crowds at dadar station the students talk about various aspects of safe commuting and precautions such as taking care of belongings and keeping helplines handy but their focus is on deterring commuters from crossing the tracks and travelling on footboardsrooftops on monday the grp had along with citizens groups formed a human chain at 14 locations where trespassing is recorded the most we want our programmes against trespassing to be long term but we realized that citizens may not have time to dedicate to the cause every week we decided to look for different avenues and hit upon the idea to approach schools and colleges added pandey even as the grps efforts were on a 22yearold man died while crossing the tracks between malad and kandivli around 1230 pm vitt lakhani was knocked down by a churchgatebound local he was pronounced dead at a local hospital