Unbelievable as it may look that as many as fifty thousand people lost their lives between 2015 and 2017 on railway tracks after being hit by trains. Railway Ministry has come up with this shocking Data. Recently, in Amritsar, during Dusshera celebrations more than 61 lives were lost as the victims were standing on the railway tracks, leading to questions as to how the National Transporter could prevent such deaths.
Why people resort to trespassing, violating safety and cautionary instructions, avoiding over- bridges and even travelling on the roofs of the railway coaches? There is Railway Police but God knows why they prefer to remain in hiding on and near railway stations and not arrest those who cross the lines to reach the next platform fast or those who violate other norms. In foreign countries anyone found even near the tracks is bound to be prosecuted and punished unlike in our country. Section 147 of the Railways Act needed not only to be made more stringent but implemented in letter and spirit.
It should be made known that railway tracks are not roads where the chances of a speeding vehicle applying abrupt brakes could save a violator of traffic rules trying to cross the road and it was in the interests of the people themselves to use over bridges and never ever climb down on tracks, least walking on them.
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