A video from Kanpur Railway Station in India is going viral on social media when the station got an escalator for public convenience. 

The video that surfaced on social media shows a middle-aged man and a woman trying to go down in an escalator that moves upwards.

People seem to have misunderstood its purpose and are handling it in quite an awkward way. In the video, one can see how a man continued to walk down as if he was going down the stairs, and it left many social media users in splits.

Funnily enough, many others followed him instead of understanding the real concept behind an escalator, reports the Indian Express.

This video was also posted on a community page, Mi Mumbaikar, and people shared the post massively. Some social media users couldn’t stop poking fun at the incident. One Facebook user commented, ‘This is India. While the world moves ahead… Our progress takes us back.’ Meanwhile, others urged the authorities to install guidance signs for those who would use an escalator for the first time or don’t use it frequently.

‘Instead of making fun of them, one should teach them its uses. How many of you knew how to use smart phones without being taught. Life in villages is totally different from cities,’ another comment read.