DEATH ON THE TRACKS

• 1,000 accidents were derailments,619 were at unmanned level crossings

• 112 accidents due to collisions

• 98 related to fires and 94 at manned level crossings

• Railways paid Rs 56.93 cr as compensation for death and injury

Recently

• Accidents for passenger trains has gone down from 261 in ’00-01 to 144 in 06-07

• Special Railway Safety Fund, a non-lapsable fund of Rs 17,000 cr set up in 2001

• Around 16,000 kilometres of track, 2,700 bridges and 1,500 signalling installations would have been replaced

Accidents: 1,959

Dead: 1,539

Hurt: 4,837

Due to staff failure: 44%

Sacked: 353

Details Accidents: Railways getting on right track but a long way to go

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