{"id":581997,"date":"2023-06-05T09:42:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T04:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=581997"},"modified":"2023-06-05T11:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T05:54:51","slug":"2022-cag-report-on-derailments-flagged-multiple-shortcomings-in-rail-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/2022-cag-report-on-derailments-flagged-multiple-shortcomings-in-rail-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 CAG report on derailments flagged multiple shortcomings in rail safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the horrific three-way train accident in Odisha&#8217;s Balasore, the safety of India&#8217;s trains has come to the fore, specifically a 2022 report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) that flagged multiple shortcomings and made recommendations to improve the safety of the country&#8217;s transport system. <\/p>\n<p>Titled &#8216;Derailment in Indian Railways&#8217;, the report highlighted shortfalls in inspections, failures to submit or accept inquiry reports after accidents, failures to use a dedicated railway fund on priority tasks, a decline in funding track renewal, and inadequate staffing in safety operations as serious concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the horrific three-way train accident in Odisha&#8217;s Balasore, the safety of India&#8217;s trains has come to the fore, specifically a 2022 report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) that flagged multiple shortcomings and made recommendations to improve the safety of the country&#8217;s transport system. Titled &#8216;Derailment in Indian Railways&#8217;, the report highlighted shortfalls in inspections, failures to submit or accept inquiry reports after accidents, failures to use a dedicated railway fund on priority tasks, a decline in funding track renewal, and inadequate staffing in safety operations as serious concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}