Passengers at the Anand Vihar Railway station in Delhi can now stay fit, saving money. As part of the Fit India movement, starting February 21, it will be possible to get a free ticket: if a person does 30 squats in 180 seconds, the machine installed here will issue a ticket to the platform worth 10 rupees (about 10 rubles), railway Minister Piyush Goyal said about the innovation on his Twitter.
In the 25-second video provided by him, the young man carefully squats in front of the machine, which does not seem to be different from a regular payment terminal, but is equipped with a video camera and sensors that read the movement of the body when squatting and counts their number. In the end, the hero receives a ticket to the platform. During the first hour after publication, the video got about 72 thousand viewings and hundreds of comments, mostly laudatory and enthusiastic.
Meanwhile, this simulator terminal is not at all a unique invention of Indian railway workers. It was first installed in Moscow in 2013 at the Vystavochnaya station of the Moscow subway during the all-Russian competition ‘Olympic Changes’.
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