Bhagalpur, April 2: To salute real-life heroes who have shown extraordinary courage when it mattered the most, the Malda division of Eastern Railway will come up with posters titled “We are Malda”.

The posters would be displayed at different railway stations of the division. “The proposed posters would display the heroes who had done exemplary work,” said Rabindra Gupta, the divisional railway manager of Malda.

He said on March 27, Mohammad Amzad (25) from Payalpur in Pirpainty block, Bhagalpur, was run over by New Farakka-Anandbihar Express near platform number 3 at Bhagalpur station.

“The incident happened when the train was pulling out of Bhagalpur station and two women passengers were struggling to force themselves inside the train. They were about to fall off having failed to grab the compartment’s door handle. Amzad, waiting to board the train, noticed them and pushed the duo safely inside the compartment but lost balance and fell on the tracks before getting under the train’s wheels,” Gupta said.

“Had he not intervened, the women would have been killed. Amzad’s extraordinary courage to save others’ lives was an eye-opener for us,” he added.

Son of a daily wager, Mohammad Kurban, Amzad was a small-time trader. On the fateful day, Amzad was returning to his native place after purchasing steel sheets from Bhagalpur market. The Malda division has decided to felicitate Amzad posthumously. A team of railway employees from Sahebganj station in neighbouring Jharkhand visited Amzad’s family at Payalpur, his native place, on Monday and handed over Mohammad Kurban a certificate of appreciation along with Rs 5,000.

“Amzad was a real hero in real life, the government should felicitate him,” Gupta said. According to sources, apart from Amzad, the railway would also project a Grade IV employee of Malda division, Seema Roy, in the proposed poster drive.

Seema, too, had shown extraordinary example of honesty around four months ago. She had found not a few hundred or thousand rupees but all of Rs 23 lakh in the first-class compartment of a train. She found the wads of notes in a bag under a seat while cleaning the Gour Express, which runs from Sealdah to Malda, in the shed.

“Seema immediately handed over the bag to senior officers there. The bag belonged to the owner of a bidi manufacturing unit,” Gupta said. The bidi company later wanted to reward Seema with Rs 10,000 but she refused. Gupta has already felicitated Seema for her honesty. “We are looking for people like Amzad and Seema so that we could put them on the poster,” Gupta said.

He added that all station managers have been asked to collect detailed information of such brave people so that the railway could felicitate them.