Indian Railways commissions four track monitoring machine post CAG’s red flag

Four new Track Recording Cars, which help in carrying out super check of train track parameters, have been commissioned after a CAG report highlighted the shortfall, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told the Rajya Sabha on Friday. Vaishnaw was responding to questions raised by All India Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien who asked, “Whether any action has been taken to complete inspection of railway track safety in view of CAG’s observation that 50 per cent compulsory track safety inspection of railway tracks have not been completed.”

The Railway Minister said, “Comptroller and Auditor General’s report had pointed out less inspection by Track Recording Car (TRC) during the period of study. TRC is only a means to carry out super checks of track parameters measured and monitored by permanent way gang, junior engineers, senior section engineers and tests checked at assistant divisional engineer level.”