West Bengal Kanchanjunga Train Accident: Top Railway Official Calls For Enhanced ‘Kavach’ Safety

3 months ago

In a tragic train collision near Rangapani station, eight people have lost their lives, and 25 others have sustained injuries. Jaya Varma Sinha, Chairman and CEO of the Railway Board, stated that preliminary investigations suggest human error as the cause, indicating a possible case of signal disregard. She emphasized the need for the proliferation of Kavach, an automatic train protection system, across West Bengal to prevent such incidents in the future.

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00:00The train, the goods train, its driver and assistant driver have also lost their lives.

00:11And the guards of Kanchanjunga have also lost their lives.

00:16It seems to be a human error, but we will know more about it after the inquiry.

00:26The train, the goods train, its driver and assistant driver have also lost their lives.

00:33It seems to be a human error, but we will know more about it after the inquiry.

00:57The Delhi-Gohati route is planned for the next plan.

01:02It is not there right now.

01:06So ma'am, the information for now is that the rescue operation has been completed and the total casualties are 8.

01:13And the injured are 25.

01:16They said 25, but there are around 50 people in the hospital.

01:20Now the opposition is targeting you, the railways especially.

01:24They are saying that in the last one year there have been a spate of rail accidents.

01:29How do you look at the accusations by the opposition?

01:31I would not like to get into that, but let me assure you that safety is the first priority of the railway organisation.

01:38And we are doing everything to ensure that our train operations remain safe.

01:44And as far as this accident is concerned, it seems to be a human error.

01:49But we will know more about it after the inquiry.

01:52And we have to control human error also.

01:56For that, the shield is the most important thing, which has to be proliferated.

02:00It is being increased to a mission mode.

02:04It is already running at around 1500 km.

02:11And this year, the shield will be installed at another 3000 km.

02:16Next year, there will be another 3000 km extra planning.

02:20But to install it all over India, it has to be built up gradually.

02:24Because the people who supply this equipment also have to ramp up their production.

02:30So we are trying to help them and persuade them to increase it.

02:33The sooner we can proliferate it, the better.

02:37Ma'am, is the shield not installed anywhere in West Bengal and North-East Bengal?

02:40It is planned, right?

02:42Because the 3000 km that will be completed this year will also include Bengal.

02:47Delhi-Howrah route.

02:49Ma'am, what is the mistake?

02:52The signal is disregarded.

02:54It means that they should have stopped the train.

02:57They should not have driven the train without stopping it.

03:00But it seems that they did not stop the train.

03:03And even though there was a signal to stop, the train moved ahead.

03:08The train behind had to stop.

03:10These are the first indications.

03:13We will get to know more details after the inquiry.

03:16So it is completely human.

03:18It seems so now.

03:20Because unfortunately, the driver also perished in this accident.

03:25So we have no authentic way of knowing what exactly happened.

03:28So whatever we can gather from the situation which has passed so far,

03:35it seems that there was a disregard of signal.

03:38But we will know more after a detailed inquiry.

03:42Ma'am, how was the investigation conducted after the accident?

03:47The investigation is carried out at every level.

03:51First of all, it is carried out on the field.

03:58For more information, visit www.fema.gov

West Bengal Kanchanjunga Train Accident: Top Railway Official Calls For Enhanced ‘Kavach’ Safety

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