While Union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday said the “root cause” of the triple train accident in Odisha’s Balasore district has been identified, the Comptroller and Auditor General’s 2022 report ‘Derailment in Indian Railways’, flagged serious concerns ranging from not utilising a special railway fund on priority tasks to reduction in money spent on track renewal.
The RRSK fund
The railway safety fund or the Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK) is a reserve fund that received a corpus of ₹ 1 lakh crore over five years starting from 2017-18.
