Odisha put together crash: Rail Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw holds meeting with officers

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, who returned to Delhi from Balasore in Odisha after reviewing the rescue and restoration work following the triple put together accident, held a high-level meeting with officers proper right here on Tuesday.

Sources said Vaishnaw instructed Railway Board officers to draw plans to make the railway neighborhood completely tamper-proof from exterior elements.

The minister was moreover scheduled to hold a gathering with regular managers (GMs) and divisional railway managers of zonal railways on the problem of safety, but it surely absolutely was chaired by Railway Board Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti. The digital meeting which began at spherical 5 pm lasted a number of hours, officers said. The minister was not present inside the meeting, a railway spokesperson said.

On Monday, the Railway Board had issued instructions to all GMs to make it possible for the protocol throughout the signalling applications are made tamper-proof.

The put together accident in Balasore involving Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express and a objects put together laden with iron ore occurred spherical 7 pm on Friday near the Bahanaga Bazar station. At least 278 of us had been killed and higher than 900 had been injured inside the accident.

Sources level out that an preliminary probe into the accident has revealed not solely a “signalling interference” however moreover a possible human negligence whereby the door of the relay room the place the signalling system is put in, had been saved open. However, this has not been confirmed by officers proper right here.

Following the incident, the minister claimed that it was a “criminal act” throughout which modifications had been made to the interlocking system, whereas railway officers have termed the system “99 per cent tamper-proof and fail-proof,” thus providing no clear clarification for the tragedy.

While unanswered questions referring to technical options throughout the incident will come to light after the Commissioner of Railway Safety’s probe report, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has moreover started its probe into it.

NEW DELHI: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, who returned to Delhi from Balasore in Odisha after reviewing the rescue and restoration work following the triple put together accident, held a high-level meeting with officers proper right here on Tuesday.

Sources said Vaishnaw instructed Railway Board officers to draw plans to make the railway neighborhood completely tamper-proof from exterior elements.

The minister was moreover scheduled to hold a gathering with regular managers (GMs) and divisional railway managers of zonal railways on the problem of safety, but it surely absolutely was chaired by Railway Board Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti. The digital meeting which began at spherical 5 pm lasted a number of hours, officers said. The minister was not present inside the meeting, a railway spokesperson said.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

On Monday, the Railway Board had issued instructions to all GMs to make it possible for the protocol throughout the signalling applications are made tamper-proof.

The put together accident in Balasore involving Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express and a objects put together laden with iron ore occurred spherical 7 pm on Friday near the Bahanaga Bazar station. At least 278 of us had been killed and higher than 900 had been injured inside the accident.

Sources level out that an preliminary probe into the accident has revealed not solely a “signalling interference” however moreover a possible human negligence whereby the door of the relay room the place the signalling system is put in, had been saved open. However, this has not been confirmed by officers proper right here.

Following the incident, the minister claimed that it was a “criminal act” throughout which modifications had been made to the interlocking system, whereas railway officers have termed the system “99 per cent tamper-proof and fail-proof,” thus providing no clear clarification for the tragedy.

While unanswered questions referring to technical options throughout the incident will come to light after the Commissioner of Railway Safety’s probe report, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has moreover started its probe into it.