REVISION OF RAILWAY SAFETY RULES
Review of Safety
rules, governing maintenance of fixed and mobile assets viz. rolling
stock, track, bridges, signalling, traction, and general operation
is a continuous process. Instead of specific work study covering
very large variety of assets and practices, the relevant rules
are amended from time to time depending upon the changing needs,
technological inputs, modifications and recommendations made by
various accident inquiry committees.
The number of consequential
train accidents has been coming down and the train accidents per
million train kilometres have come down from 0.65 during 2000-2001
to 0.55 in the 2001-2002.
This information
was given by the Union Minister of Railways Shri Nitish Kumar
in reply to a question from Shri Gunipati Ramaiah in the Lok Sabha
today.
