Another head-on collision: Whither railway safety?
Another head-on collision between trains in West Bengal undermines the sordid condition of the railway safety - was it a human error or poor maintenance of tracks or inadequate safety measures or another conspiracy to pull down the TMC?
ONE OF the trains coming from Sealdah and going to Shantipur in Nadia district was stationary on the Phulia station platform number two and the other from Shantipur and going towards Sealdah came from the opposite direction and struck it head on. This was supposed to go through platform number one. Fortunately, it was a Saturday, the time was evening and the compartments were more or less empty hence, the loss of lives was restricted to only one. But many were injured.
As has become customary, the Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi lost no time in announcing compensation to all the dead as well as those injured.
The present railway minster has several times lamented over the lack of funds to undertake incorporation of important safety measures. Apparently, the previous minister had used up all the funds and has left the present minister in the doldrums.
The former was Mamata Banerjee and the present railway minister Dinesh Trivedi both belonging to the same political party, the Trinamool Congress, and profess to the same ideologies.
Indiscriminate sanctioning of routes and diversion of funds to unviable projects are nothing but playing to the galleries and these methods have been followed. These have ruined the credibility of the railways. Concerns of safety have, apparently been put in the back burner.
Doling out compensation to victims of accidents is, apparently, the solution that the railways prefer.
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