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Posted: Jul 28 2016 (12:34)
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Lata Argade is the typical Mumbai train commuter. For 32 years, the government official has relied on the CST-Dombivli suburban train service to cover the 55km...
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We are very enterprising when it comes to doing something which is almost impossible with the technology employed, by compromising on safety parameters like not permitting minimum maintenance required etc. There is a limit to productivity which can be achieved with a given technology. If we try to extract more out of it, safety gets compromised and workers get unduly stressed which is not good in long run. Incremental improvement in a given technology cannot go on indefinitely, a time comes when the incremental benefits saturate and that is the time to invest in new technology. It seems that Mumbai suburban section has reached that state. IRlys must go for state of the art Railway signaling systems which suits our requirements rather than over-stretching the current signaling with operation of more & more trains on the same route, thereby compromising with maintenance & safety.
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