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Safety Measures: Railway Safety Review Committee-Recommendations

The document discusses safety measures on Indian Railways. It notes that infrastructure is being strengthened to handle more traffic. A Railway Safety Review Committee made 278 recommendations in 1998-2001 to improve safety, of which 240 have been accepted and 126 implemented by 2005. The committee also recommended establishing a Special Railway Safety Fund of Rs. 17,000 crore over 6 years to eliminate aging assets in tracks, bridges, signals, and rolling stock and enhance safety features like track circuiting and training facilities. The government agreed to provide Rs. 12,000 crore with Rs. 5,000 crore raised through a passenger safety surcharge.

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Safety Measures: Railway Safety Review Committee-Recommendations

The document discusses safety measures on Indian Railways. It notes that infrastructure is being strengthened to handle more traffic. A Railway Safety Review Committee made 278 recommendations in 1998-2001 to improve safety, of which 240 have been accepted and 126 implemented by 2005. The committee also recommended establishing a Special Railway Safety Fund of Rs. 17,000 crore over 6 years to eliminate aging assets in tracks, bridges, signals, and rolling stock and enhance safety features like track circuiting and training facilities. The government agreed to provide Rs. 12,000 crore with Rs. 5,000 crore raised through a passenger safety surcharge.

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SAFETY MEASURES

Keeping in view the fact that the Railways will have to lift more
originating traffic during the coming years, there is a growing emphasis
on strengthening of infrastructure on the Railways. This is a continuous
process and the investment made and strategies adopted in the past have
indicated this by way of reduction in the number of consequential train
accidents over the years.
Railway Safety Review Committee-Recommendations
Railway Safety Review Committee – 1998 set up under the
Chairmanship of Justice H.R. Khanna, a retired Supreme Court Judge
submitted Part-I of its report in August 1999, and Part-II in February
2001. Of the total 278 recommendations made in both the parts of the
Committee, 240 have been accepted fully or partially and 38
recommendations could not be accepted due to various reasons.
Implementation of the accepted recommendations is in progress and 126
recommendations of both the parts have already been implemented till
January, 2005.
Special Railway Safety Fund
Railway Safety Review Committee had recommended that the Central
Government should provide a one-time grant to the Railways to wipe
out arrears in renewal of over-aged assets within a fixed time frame. In
order to implement this recommendation, Central Government has set up
a non-lapsable “Special Railway Safety Fund” of Rs.17,000 crore to
wipe out arrears in renewal of over-aged assets of track, bridges,
signaling gears and rolling stock, etc. within a fixed time frame of 6
years. It also includes certain safety enhancement measures such as track
circuiting of maximum number of stations, aids necessary for improving
safety of rolling stock, up-gradation of training facilities including
training aids in training institutions, simulators for locomotive drivers,
development of computer based training modules, etc. Central
Government has agreed to provide about Rs 12,000 crores over a period
of 6 years (dividend free) and about Rs 5,000 crores are to be mobilized
by Ministry of Railways through levy of a ‘Safety Surcharge’ on
passenger fares.

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