Tuesday, July 20, 2010

lethal railways

Indian railways is the third largest employer in the world after Chinese Peoples Liberation Army and Walmart. Its wide and dense network has been important mode of travel and commuting for the huge Indian population.
I have always felt awe at the way it handles all its complex functions with only most basic of technology in extremely populated environment. Not only wonder, I have felt pride in this Indian Railways.
But things seem to be changing fast. safety is waning. there have been six major accidents in just one year. Indian Railways is fast catching with Chinese coal mining in lethality.
Most of the accidents with Indian railways are attributed to human error. In Indian situation I would rather call it human negligence. what else can we expect amidst utter disregard toward any system and discipline.
Number of actual accidents we see is much less than what it deserve to be. All credit goes to Indian compassion. People don't expect systems to work and are always watching out on other people to act out of turn.

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