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The #OdishaTrainTragedy has now claimed 288 precious lives, 56 people are struggling for life & 747 are seriously injured. It is India’s most devastating train accident.
QUESTION 1. - Who is responsible?
QUESTION 2.👇
Should we just pray to God (as PM Modi says) or demand answers of Govt?
QUESTION 3. 👇
Should the dead be a mere statistics
OR
Is anyone accountable for India’s worst #OdishaTrain tragedy?
ANSWER 👇
Modi Govt & Rail Minister himself should be held solely responsible. Rail Minster must be sacked forthwith.
9 REASONS, 9 QUESTIONS👇
1. Initial News Reports suggest that Balasore, #OdishaTrainCrash happened owing to failure of signalling system.
But the Railway Minister & Rail Ministry were immune to the critical warning on failure of Signalling System that had been given.
On 9th February, 2023; Chief Operating Manager, South Western Railway Zone wrote on failure of Signalling System by stating, “serious flaws in the system where the route of dispatch gets altered after a train starts on signals with correct appearance of route in the SMS panel. This contravenes the essence and basic principles of interlocking.”
He also warned that if the signal maintenance system was not monitored and corrected immediately, it could lead to “re-occurrence and serious accidents”.
Why was Rail Minister & Railway Ministry immune or ignorant or negligent?
2. Why did recent derailment of number of Goods Trains, where a number of Loco Pilots died and wagons were destroyed, didn’t raise enough alarms on lack of Rail Safety forcing the Minister and Rly Ministry to take appropriate measures?
3. Is it correct that Rail Minister is more concerned with marketing and pleasing the Prime Minister rather then concentrate on Railway Safety?
Is the Rail Minister too pre-occupied with making the PM launch Vande Bharat Trains, refurbishing Railway Stations (tweeting their pictures) and increasing revenues rather then looking at the arduous job of ensuring passanger safety?
Is this the reason why Railway Minister largely skipped the presentation on Railway Safety on 2nd June, 2023 in the Chintan Shivir (hours before the #OdishaTrainAccident ) and concentrated on launch of Vande Bharat Trains and increased revenues?
4. Isn’t the increased lapse of “Railway Safety” owing to lack of required human resource - availability of foot soldiers like Gang man, Station Masters, Loco Pilots etc?
Isn’t it correct that majority of 39 Railway Zones lack the required human resource as per an RTI reply given by railways?
Isn’t it correct that 3,11,000 Posts of Group C are vacant in Railways thereby jeopardising the Rail Safety as also operational efficacy?
Isn’t it correct that 3,081 out of 18,881 Gazetted Cadre posts are lying vacant in Railways?
How is it possible to run an effective and safe operation in absence of staff?
5. Isn’t it correct that the Year 2022-23 saw 48 “Consequential Train Accidents” (train accidents having serious repercussion in terms of loss of lives, property etc.) as compared to 35 such accidents the previous year?
Isn’t it correct that the Year 2022-23 witnessed 165 “Non Consequential Train Accidents”, including 35 cases of “Signal Passed at Danger - SPAD”?
Why did it not raise a serious alarm on Rail Safety?
What preventive measures were taken?
6. Why has the “Train Collision Avoidance System - TCAS” called KAVACH not implemented across Rly Zones?
Is ot correct that only 2% of Rail Network i.e 1,450 KMs out of 68,000 Rly Network is covered by KAVACH?
How will Rail Safety be ensured?
7. Why has Rail Ministry made “Commission of Rail Safety” redundant by clipping its powers?
8. Isn’t it correct that CAG Report 2021 pointed out that 20% of “Rashtriya Rail Suraksha Fund” was used for non-safety purposes & substantial amount not utilised?
Is this not a deliberate lapse?
9. Why is Rail Minister also burdened with the charge of big Ministries like IT & Telecom making Railway as a secondary job & jeopardising safety?
Excited to launch our new exhibition "Modernist Utopia. Architectural Heritage of Zenica" that will open on October 29 at the Bosnian National Theatre in #Zenica
There will also be a walking tour of Zenica's modernist heritage on the same day starting at 15:00 😍