Rail mishaps under-reported 8212; CAG

The CAG said though the Commissioner of Railway Safety CRS was yet to inquire into all quot;serious accidentsquot; out of 2,274 serious accidents during this period, only 126 5.54 per cent were probed by CRS.

The CAG also found that none of the four quot;important safety aidsquot;, identified by different committees over the past 20 years, quot;has been fully implementedquot;.

The report said of the 1,529 stations required to be track circuited on quot;A and Bquot; routes on eight zonal railways till March 31, 1998, quot;track circuiting had been completed only in 911 stationsquot;.

quot;Similarly, the provision of Auxiliary Warning System aws on trunk routes with speed level of 100 km per hour and above has not even been taken up in five railway zones,quot; CAG said.

quot;In one railway zone eastern, the project has been scrapped; in two others central, western, there has been very limited implementation,quot; it said.