-Livemint.com 44% of derailments between 2012-13 and 2016-17 were due to failure of tracks, fittings There have been nine incidents of train derailments in the past one month. The spate of accidents has increased anxiety among passengers and also generated a lot of political heat. What are the concrete facts though? Have train derailments been increasing? What is causing these accidents? Is it sabotage, human error or dilapidated infrastructure? A NITI Aayog discussion...
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In 2016-17, India's derailment deaths are highest in a decade -Chaitanya Mallapur
-Scroll.in/ IndiaSpend.com No one was killed when the Kaifiyat Express went off the tracks in UP on Wednesday. But 458 people have died in train derailments over the past ten years. India’s death toll from train derailments in 2016-’17 is now the highest it has been in a decade, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of data tabled in the upper house of parliament, the Rajya Sabha, on March 31, 2017 and...
More »60% of all east-bound trains ran late in May -Avishek G Dastidar
-The Indian Express In May, data shows, only 3.04 per cent trains lost punctuality due to law and order problems. Rail passengers travelling to the eastern parts of the country from the north were most affected by train delays in May, according to official data obtained by The Indian Express. The data show that of the 19,450 trains that failed to keep time from May 1 to May 30 across India, around...
More »Indian trains smash records in running late, 800% jump in number of trains arriving more than 15 hours late
-JantaKaReporter.com Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has often been dubbed by his criticis as a Twitter minister because of his prolific use of the microblogging site to resolve minor inconveniences of passengers. However, on major fronts, his department has made no progress at all. In some cases, the performance of Indian trains have alarmingly worsened under Suresh Prabhu as the minister. The number of accidents has risen with total losses of lives also...
More »'Train Accidents killed two every 3 days in last 8 years' -Chethan Kumar
-The Times of India BENGALURU: Investigations into 1,018 'consequential' Train Accidents in the past eight years —which took 1,940 lives at the rate of 2 deaths every 3 days — revealed that only 4.7% of them were caused by sabotage. A whopping 44% were caused due to failure of railway staff. Nearly 3,200 people suffered injuries in these accidents. That only 48 of these accidents (4.7%) were the result of sabotage puts the...
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