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The Corporate Safety Plan of Indian Railways for the period 2003-2013 has been formulated and presented to both the Houses of Parliament in August, 2003. Replacement of overaged signaling systems at 1494 stations was envisaged in the Corporate Safety Plan issued in August, 2003. Out of these, work has been completed at 567 stations and the work at the remaining 927 stations is in progress. During this period replacement of signaling systems at about 623 more stations has been sanctioned and presently the work of replacement of old signaling systems by modern interlocking systems is progress at 1550 stations on Indian Railways.
Provision of panel interlocking coupled with installation of a number of other devices helps check possibility of error on the part of operating staff and leads to better safety. The corporate Safety Plan states the objectives, targets and strategies for which the Indian Railways would be striving in the next decade. It envisages an action plan involving total investment of Rs. 31,835 crore for safety related works during the ten year period.
Some of the salient features of this Plan are: -
(i) Aim to reduce overall consequential train accidents per million train kilometers from 0.44 in 2002-03 to 0.17 in 2012-13.
(ii) Targeting elimination of collisions by extensive use of Anti-Collision Device (ACD) and other measures.
(iii) 60% reduction in derailments.
(iv) Reduction in fire accidents and consequent fatalities by 80% by adoption of fireproof coaches and use of fire retardant materials in the existing coaches.
(v) Containing the rising trend in level crossing accidents.
(vi) Aiming at reduction in fatalities in case of serious accidents by sue of Crash Worthy Coaches and tight lock couplers with anti-climbing features.
(vii) Reduction in accidents attributable to human failure by 40%.
The above information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri R. Velu, in a written statement to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.
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