Whether any steps were taken to increase train safety in the nation is now being questioned in light of this new research.
Digital Desk: Nearly 290 people have already died and more than 1000 people have been injured as a result of the horrific Odisha train tragedy, which occurred when the passenger train Coromandel Express collided with a stationery goods train. Rescue operations are still ongoing.
A fresh development in the investigation has arisen as a result of an audit report presented last year that expresses "serious concern" about rail safety, just as investigators are working to identify the actual cause of the terrible train accident that claimed hundreds of lives.
Recently, it was revealed that a 2022 audit report, which was presented to the Parliament last year, had shown multiple significant failures in rail safety on the part of the Union Railway Ministry.
Whether any steps were taken to increase train safety in the nation is now being questioned in light of this new research.
The engineering division of the Railway Ministry was blamed for the majority of train derailment accidents nationwide in a report published in 2022 under the title "Derailment in Indian Railways."
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge also cited this study when he questioned the Centre for the Odisha train accident.
Kharge taking Twitter wrote, “According to the latest CAG audit report, almost 7 out of 10 train accidents between 2017-18 and 2020-21 were due to train derailment. In 2017-21, there was zero testing of Rail and Weld (Track Maintenance) for safety in the East Coast Railway. Why was this sidelined?”
While this was going on, the Modi government was criticised by the opposition for only implementing the Kavach train safety system on 2% of all the nation's trains. If the Kavach system had been placed in the three trains, it is claimed that this train crash would have been avoided.
Several compartments of the Coromandel Express train derailed after it collided with a standing goods train in the Odisha train accident. This derailment was followed by the collision of another passenger train with these capsized compartments.
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