The CCTV video, posted on Twitter by the Indian Ministry of Railways, showed a worker at the Vangani station in Mumbai who sprinted to save a child while a train was heading towards them.
The worker picked up the child on the platform a few moments before the train hit.
The ministry praised the employee, point guard Mayur Shelkhe, as a “good Samaritan.”
“We salute his exemplary courage and maximum devotion to duty,” they added in a tweet.
Indian Railways is the fourth largest railway operator in the world and the largest employer in India.
On March 25, 2020, the railway network was suspended for the first time in 167 years, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a nationwide blockade due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The following month, the railway operator announced plans to turn up to 20,000 old train cars into isolation wards for patients as the virus spread.
India is currently facing a second wave of worsening coronavirus. On Sunday, the country reported 261,500 new cases – the highest figure to date, according to the Indian Ministry of Health.