The recent week-long violence against the Agnipath scheme for the armed forces resulted into a colossal loss of over hundreds of crore to the Indian Railway with maximum losses reported from Bihar and Telangana. Dozens of express and other passengers’ trains were vandalized and their coaches were set on fire by the protesters against the rollout of the Agnipath scheme in which two persons were killed and more than 35 injured.
Admitting about the huge losses due to various law and order problems including the Agnipath agitation, Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in a written reply in Lok Sabha on Wednesday, said that the railway had to grant a total refund of approximately Rs102.96 crore between June 14 and 30 on account of cancellations of trains to the passengers alone apart from crores woth property damages.
