Mumbai's local trains that are the lifelines of the city are moving ahead with time. The trains that carry thousands of travellers on a daily basis are going to modernize the woman's coach logo. A woman in saree and pallu on the head has been the face for all women's coaches since the beginning but now a woman in formal suit and shirt is all ready to take over.

This is not all, as a part of the upgrade the women's coaches will also have posters of strong women idols such as the first Indian woman astronaut, Kalpana Chawla along with ace badminton player, Saina Nehwal, and cricketer, Mithali Raj along with the details of their achievements.

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As a part of the project, only two of the 12-coach trains have been upgraded with the new logo and posters as of yet. However, two more are expected to come out in a few weeks.

Good thought about the change but I would love to see instead a group of women of different attires as the logo because travelling in train is teamwork and our crowds are a mix anyway of ethnic wear and office wear so a better solution might be a team of women 

— Reema K Thunderbolt (@JaMLaRHaT) May 27, 2019

This idea for a logo change came into existence after a regular inspection that took place two months ago by AK Gupta, WR (Western Railways) General Manager. He felt that the old logos did not adequately represent the women of today.

Ravinder Bhakar, Chief PRO of WR in an interview to Mumbai Mirror said, "The idea was to adopt an icon that will do justice and represent today's women in this city, who are independent and successful."

Modernizing! You call changing logos from Indian to Western Style “modernization" what else could be more shameful than this? You’re giving your passengers a legacy of calling their own culture backward or being ashamed of. @Gmwrly @drmbct @drmadiwr @wrdrmrjt @RatlamDRM

— Manpreet singh Jakhu (@JakhuMonty) May 27, 2019

The new logo will be larger in size to make sure that the commuters do not mistake it for the general compartment.