Odisha, India, has a new train accident just days after a deadly crash there.
Odisha
The state of India, has a new train accident just days after a deadly crash there.
Indian news outlets indicate that nobody was hurt in the most recent train disaster because the train was hauling a load of limestones.Another train accident occurred only three days after a disastrous three-train crash in the Indian state of Odisha.More people lost their lives on Monday when a privately operated freight train crashed in Odisha’s Bargarh district, making it the deadliest railway catastrophe in the country in the past 20 years.Over 1,000 people were injured in the earlier collision, which happened 450 kilometres away in Balasore, and the entire country is still reeling from the devastating loss of life and the emotional toll it has taken.
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Indian news outlets indicate that nobody was hurt in the recent derailment because the train was transporting limestones. According to the Hindustan Times, the cause of the disaster is still unknown.According to the Deccan Herald, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) explained that a private cement mill’s cargo train derailed within the factory grounds at Mendhapali in the Bargarh district.”Railroads plays no part in this.”This is an isolated private cement company’s narrow gauge siding. The firm alone is responsible for the upkeep of all infrastructure, including rolling stock like engines, waggons, and train track (narrow gauge),” ECoR claimed.
India’s railways
While this was going on, teams from India’s railways were working around the clock to repair the tracks damaged in the deadliest train accident in the country in decades.Trains are the preferred and cheapest form of long-distance transit for both people and cargo, therefore Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pushed for a $30 billion railway infrastructure modernization to strengthen India’s economy and connectivity.On Saturday, Modi was scheduled to launch a new, high-tech electric train equipped with a safety feature to prevent collisions, but instead he went to see the mangled wreckage, console the families of the nearly 300 people killed in the triple-train crash, and visit some of the hundreds of injured.
The incident
The incident on Friday in the eastern state of Odisha, near the town of Balasore, was cited by experts as evidence that India’s complicated and sometimes decrepit railway infrastructure has a long way to go.In the words of a former top railways official, “pure operational failures are not uncommon on Indian railways,” as reported by AFP. Safety systems have improved greatly, although they are still being refined.The Indian Railways system is the fourth largest in the world, with 64,000 kilometres (40,000 miles) of track and 14,000 trains running every day on 8,000 engines.The network is under tremendous pressure in a country that has lately become the world’s most populated, where more than 21 million people are carried every day, according to government estimates.
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