Despite record investment in new trains and stations, industry experts claim the state monopoly Indian Railways isn't focusing enough on safety measures.
The deadly crash at Odisha's Balasore district on Friday, which has so far claimed over 280 lives and injured 900 more, has focused attention on the safety of the railway network in the world's second most populous country.
The railways have been introducing more trains to cope with soaring demand, but the network's workforce to maintain them has not kept pace, he said. Workers are not trained adequately or their workload is too high, and they don't get enough rest.June 1981: India's most deadly train disaster happened in Bihar state, near the Nepalese border. At least 800 people died after seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train blew off the track and into a river during a cyclone.
July 2011: In Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, a mail train derailed, killing 70 people and injuring more than 300. October 2018: At least 59 people died in Amritsar city, northern India when a commuter train crashed into a crowd gathered on the track for a festival. Fifty-seven people were injured. "This question [on safety] is arising because there has been one incident now. But if you see the data, you will see that there have been no major accidents for years," a railways ministry spokesperson said.
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