-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 »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...
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-The Times of India HYDERABAD: The Derailment of the Hirakhand Express comes in close succession to at least four similar train mishaps across the country in the recent past. Weeks ago, a goods train derailed at Wihirgaon station on Kazipet-Balharshah section of South Central Railway, leading to a major disruption of train movement on the important "trunk route". While authorities get down to checking the possibility of Saturday's train mishap — the...
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-The Hindu There has been a 33 per cent rise in the number of train Derailments this fiscal compared to the previous year. “We have been able to reduce unmanned level crossing accidents to an extent. However, accidents due to Derailment have gone up to 68 this year from 51 in the previous year,” Railway Board Member Traffic Mohd. Jamshed told a press conference here on Wednesday. He, however, said the total number...
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