Mumbai-Ahmedabad Trains To Put Art Work By Disabled Artists On Display

Sitting inside a train coach, you will now be served with some special kind of art along with the regular dose of food and the green scenery outside your window.

Various paintings made by disabled artists using brushes held with their feet or mouths will be put up in Mumbai-Ahmedabad trains. The railway coaches will show off the prints of acrylic and oil paintings depicting station scenes, natural scenery, Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi, reports The Hindu.

The report further says tha the Western Railway has launched the project with around 40 paintings in the First Class compartments — seven chair cars and one executive chair car — of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Shatabdi Express.

The plan from here is to extend it to other Shatabdi, Rajdhani and Duronto trains. If passengers appreciate the art, the scheme will find a place in other trains, reports The Hindu.

The pictures that will be put on display will not be the artists' original work of art but high quality digital prints purchased at a minimum price of Rs. 1000 from the Indian Mouth and Foot Painting Artistes Association (IMFPA).