Plan to revise rail signal engineering manual: Vaishnaw

BHUBANESWAR: The railway ministry is planning to revise the signal engineering manual to improve its reliability as part of measures such as introducing new tech and procedural changes to prevent accidents such as the three-train collision in Balasore on June 2 that killed 292 people, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday.

Speaking exclusively to TOI in Puri, Vaishnaw, who is on a three-day visit to Odisha, said that there is a protocol for every repair and maintenance work. “Ideally, all these things are done as per the railways’ (signal engineering) manual. So, if any changes have to be made, the manual will be changed too,” he said.