claiming the space

Today I took the metro from central secretariat to vishwavidyalaya metro station.The trains generally are not that crowdy from central secretariat as this is the first station,generally it gets filled up from rajiv chowk or kashmere gate.In the metro whenever I travel I get bored with the continuous announcments "please offer your seat to the old,physically challeneged and someone in need"Today from kashmere gate a very old gentleman boarded the train with his daughter and he seemed a bit sick,after gtting up he asked two ladies sittng in the seats reserved for old and physically challenged to get up,to my surprise the young girls denied to get up and laughed at the old man saying that we always have to get up though the seats are ours!they didn't realised that they are sitting not on the seats reservd for ladies! After this someone from the other side got up and offered the old man a seat,and when the girls realised they started laughing at their mistake!No one even cared to say a word to them . I felt vry disgusted with the two girls and just remembered how in kolkata we used to offer old people seats in trains,buses and metros even without thinking twice ! So what is the need of reserving seats in the metros when no one really cares about them! Reserving seats for the ladies are of no use as the ladies dont claim their seats most of the time,even if they are facing too much problem in a crowded train with mens taking advantage ,as sitting in a reserved seat hurts their ego,and today I found that the senior citizens are also denied their right to seats!Delhi is strange and insensitive in many ways.