“More than 20,000 people have been killed on Mumbai’s notoriously overcrowded train system over the past five years — many of them crushed, run over, or electrocuted — according to official data.” This is a sad state of Indian transportation because the public cannot even expect basic safety. These large number of tragedies occur because the trains are over-crowded. People are hanging outside the compartments. The Indian government should establish a limit on the number of people allowed in each cart. However, this will take time because of the large number of people who are dependent on trains for their daily transportation. But, if China can do it, so can India.
The Indian government’s ostrich attitude on not ensuring infratructure of all types keep pace with growing population is one of the reasons we are always in the ‘catch up’ mode. The little that is being done is insignificant in the larger perspective. Add to this the fact that safety is not given the importance it deserves in our daily life. If one were to analyse road accidents in India most of them are caused due to speeding on bad roads, overtaking on blind spots, poor road design, obstructions on road, poor warning signals, not wearing helmets when on a two-wheeler and so on.
Understanding safety measures and knowing the lurking dangers are the first step in beinf safer in our daily life.
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The better way to search Indian trains looks great and it open fast, no pop-up, user friendly. Every information in a single page. This concept is good and some of the features like calendar, train running day has not come in a single website in this reviews. the most important features i have seen in this site that if the user does not know the station code then also he can see all the trains and it is only website which have a drop menu box for the important station from where you can choose the station name and also it has a date calendar from you can choose the date and it show the running day of the train so that you can know which day of the week this train is running. the other most important feature I have seen in this website that it show the train which does not have the reservation coach for the benefit of the user and they are showing the passenger train also which is also not available in any website. This site will enable the users to search train route and compare fares of most of the trains in India.