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Blog Entry# 2287475
Posted: May 22 2017 (13:02)

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May 22 2017 (07:23)   Watch: Why has railway travel become so dangerous recently in India?

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Despite the cries of ‘sabotage’, the fault lies in over-using the system and under-investing in safety measures.
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Some of the reasons for rly travel have become dangerous due to occurance of accidents & deaths:
(1) Too many trains jostling on limited tracks for green signal as not enough new tracks have been added to network. Between 1950-2016, Route was expanded by 23% only, where as increase in pax. & Freight traffic is 1344%, 1642%.
(2) Over burden on Rly employees as the train traffic has gone beyond the levels of manual handling. This lead to human errors.
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crowding in trains as not enough new trains have been introduced. Paxs fall from running trains & during boarding/alighting.
(4) Not using latest signaling systems with provision of warning and auto application of brakes
(5) Delayed and improper adoption of new technologies to improve safety, reliability & capacity
(6) Poor law and order situation & lack of safety awareness among people in many parts of our country.
(7) The sabotageous activities by Naxalites/ foreign-terrorists is also a menace
(8) Misplaced priorities of IR where investment in safety/capacity augmentation takes back seat and populism prevails.

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