Mumbai’s local railway network as one of the deadliest in the world
The Times of the UK calls Mumbai’s local railway network as one of the deadliest in the world. According to a report by the High Level Safety Review Committee set up by the government in September 2011, about 6,000 people die on Mumbai’s crowded local rail network every year. The committee, headed by Dr Anil Kakodkar, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, recommended that the grim situation on Mumbai’s suburban rail system needed to be tackled on a war-footing.
Three years after the report, nothing much has changed, except now Mumbai has somebody from the neighbourhood who understands the problems, vulnerability and cracking infrastructure of the suburban network, the lifeline.
Although Prabhu’s idea of setting up an SPV would take care of funding issues for Mumbai’s suburban rail network, there are several other things that can be done immediately without spending a single penny.
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