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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: What does India need to do to make its railways safer? | In Focus podcast
Description: Earlier this month a train accident in West Bengal killed 10 people and injured over 40. This comes just a year after the devastating multi-train collision that killed 275 people in Odisha last year. Railway accidents have decreased significantly over the past decade -- only 0.03 accidents took place per million km in both 2020-21 and 2021-22. But this number loses meaning in light of the numbers of lives lost in rail accidents over the past couple of years. After a train accident, there’s almost always several things that happen – human error or signal malfunctions are blamed, there is tal...