Webdesk: Three days after a three-train tragedy in Odisha killed 275 and injured over 1,000, a private cargo train derailed.
The earlier crash happened in Balasore, whereas today’s happened near Bargarh, Odisha. About 450 kilometers separate the cities.
As a private train carrying limestones, Indian media reported no casualties. Hindustan Times stated the derailment’s cause is unknown.
Moreover, The Deccan Herald said that the East Coast Railway (ECoR) clarified that some wagons of a goods train run by a private cement mill derailed inside the factory premises near Mendhapali in Bargarh district.
“Railways are irrelevant.”
“This is private cement company narrow gauge siding. ECoR maintains all infrastructure, including engines, wagons, and small gauge railroad tracks.
While, After India’s biggest train catastrophe in decades, railway teams worked non-stop to restore tracks.
Trains are the cheapest and most convenient method to travel great distances, therefore Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing a $30 billion railway infrastructure modernization to increase India’s economy and connectivity.
On Saturday, Modi was scheduled to launch a modern electric train with a collision-prevention feature after visiting the triple-train crash site, offering condolences to the families of the nearly 300 victims, and visiting some of the hundreds of injured.
Experts said Friday’s tragedy in Balasore in Odisha proved India’s complicated and sometimes antiquated railway system still needs improvement.
“Pure operational failures are not uncommon on Indian railways,” former top railways official Subodh Jain told AFP. “Safety mechanisms are now far more robust, but it’s a work in progress”.
Indian Railways, the world’s fourth largest rail network, operates 14,000 trains daily with 8,000 locomotives on 64,000 kilometres (40,000 miles) of tracks.
In the world’s most populous nation, the network carries about 21 million passengers daily.
