52,300 persons died on Mumbai’s local train network in 20 years: Railways
The number of deaths has reduced over the years, the Central and Western Railway zones said.
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More than 52,300 persons died on Mumbai’s suburban train network in the last nearly 20 years, the Railways informed the Bombay High Court on Wednesday, Live Law reported.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya was hearing a plea regarding the high fatality rate among local train commuters in Mumbai.
The petitioner, Yatin Jadhav, had pointed out several problems that lead to deaths on the suburban train network.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Western Railway and the Central Railway filed affidavits on directions the court had issued in June. The two railway zones operate local trains in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
Between 2005 and June 2024, more than 23,000 persons died on the routes operated by the Western Railway, according to The Indian Express. More than 29,300 were killed between 2009 and June 2024 on lines operated by the Central Railway.
The Western Railway informed the court that the number of fatalities had reduced in recent years, according to India Today. While there were 1,084 deaths and 1,517 injuries in 2016, 936 persons had died and 984 were injured in 2023.
The administration is sensitive towards each incident of injury and death, but its efforts would not be fruitful until it receives better cooperation from the passengers, India Today quoted Santosh Kumar Singh Rathore, the Western Railway’s senior divisional security commissioner, as saying in the...
