Rail Safety: urgent need for strategic, operational solutions

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What is stopping the Indian Railways from adopting technological solutions in this day and age to ensure infrastructure and human errors do not cause fatal accidents? Safety is a significant issue in the context of mobility and needs special attention both at the strategic and operational levels. In a 'controlled' environment like rail transportation, if safety is compromised, it is not acceptable. There have been four major accidents involving passenger trains within the past one year, three of which resulted in fatalities. The two most recent ones happened on August 19 evening and August 23 in the early morning. There have been a string of many more accidents which, as per the Railways' statistics, have been dropping year-on-year on an annual basis. However, the nature of these accidents, caused by avoidable failures of infrastructure or human error, is worrisome. What is of greater concern is the reaction of having heads roll and directing that responsibility be fixed by the "end of day". This would fail to address the basic problems. Read more at: https://www.forbesindia.com/article/iim-bangalore/rail-safety-urgent-need-for-strategic-operational-solutions/48013/1

Publication Date

31-8-2017

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Forbes India

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Network 18 media conglomerate

Keywords

Railways, Rail safety, Rail transportation

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https://www.forbesindia.com/article/iim-bangalore/rail-safety-urgent-need-for-strategic-operational-solutions/48013/1

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