Balasore rail crash a reality check for Modi govt

Union Minister for Railways, Telecom and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw was briefing the media about nine years of Modi government at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi at 4 pm on Friday. He briefed with the thoroughness of a bureaucrat with a technological background. The first third of the briefing was about railways, and Vaishnaw literally boasted about the top slot that Indian railways were occupying in the world—one of the top eight, to be precise—which run trains like Vande Bharat with a speed range of 180 kmph. He said that there were export orders for Vande Bharat trains, and India would be exporting them once the domestic production of 200 Vande Bharat trains was reached.