This morning one more train accident took place. Wonder , how many more do we need before we can be woken up from our deep slumber. Every successive government introduces populist programs and of course indian railways steal the show. Look at comments after every railway budget, and you will see introduction of new trains (hopefully to ministers home state/town), tinkering with fares and subsequent roll back after a so called debate. No discussion takes place on safety. Ofcourse, life is dispensible in our country. The overburdened tracks, high pressure work , zero/insignificant investment in technology , poor quality disaster training are some of the known malaise. How do we get over this ? Making people do a thankless job and then train them for some barebone civil etiquette was thought as a solution for transforming the railways by a previous minister. The new minister lost no time to present a dismal picture of the previous one. One common thread ties them both. More people continue to die everyday on accidents.
I think , we need to speak up and train ourselves to resist from resigning to fate with every passing day.
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