{"id":582124,"date":"2023-06-05T12:08:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=582124"},"modified":"2023-06-05T12:56:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:26:49","slug":"balasore-train-tragedy-exposes-crying-need-for-railway-safety-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/balasore-train-tragedy-exposes-crying-need-for-railway-safety-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Balasore train tragedy exposes crying need for railway safety upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The terrible train mishap at Odisha\u2019s Balasore has exposed the grim reality that despite some improvement in recent years, the Indian Railways\u2019 safety infrastructure and systems aren\u2019t yet foolproof.<\/p>\n<p>It showed that at least in some sections, facilities are still so decrepit that even the signalling and parallel locking systems, the rudiments of safety features, can fail.<\/p>\n<p>For decades on, the transporter, which practically makes no operational surplus, had been starving the corpus for improving maintenance and replenishment of its existing assets \u2013 the depreciation-reserve and safety funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terrible train mishap at Odisha\u2019s Balasore has exposed the grim reality that despite some improvement in recent years, the Indian Railways\u2019 safety infrastructure and systems aren\u2019t yet foolproof. It showed that at least in some sections, facilities are still so decrepit that even the signalling and parallel locking systems, the rudiments of safety features, can fail. For decades on, the transporter, which practically makes no operational surplus, had been starving the corpus for improving maintenance and replenishment of its existing assets \u2013 the depreciation-reserve and safety funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582124","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}