India Has Seen 157 ‘Consequential' Train Accidents Since 2021-22: Railways
Indian Railways has reported an average of three 'consequential" train accidents per month since 2021-22, as the country reported 157 such mishaps in the last 51 months, data analysed by News18 shows.
Train accidents can be broadly divided into two categories: consequential and non-consequential. Consequential are those with serious repercussions in terms of loss of human life or injury, damage to railway property, or interruption to rail traffic of laid-down threshold levels and values. These include collisions, fire, derailment, and accidents at the level crossings.
A total of 35 consequential train accidents—about three per month—were reported in 2021-22, the railway ministry told Rajya Sabha on Friday.
In 2022-23, it increased to 48, about four per month on average. The next year, 2023-24, India saw 40 consequential train accidents, more than three per month on average.
In the last financial year, 2024-25, there were 31 consequential train accidents, about three (2.6) accidents per month.
The inquiry committees, after due deliberations, submit their findings and recommendations on various accidents. Appropriate action is taken by the respective railway administration for the implementation of the recommendations suggested by the agencies in their report.
'Safety is accorded the highest priority on Indian Railways. As a consequence of various safety measures taken over the years, there has been a steep decline in the number of accidents," the ministry said.
Listing the efforts made by the ministry to ensure safety, the reply said that Kavach is a highly technology-intensive system, which requires safety certification of the highest order.
'Kavach was adopted as a National ATP system in July 2020. Kavach is provided progressively in a phased manner…Kavach has been successfully commissioned over the Kota-Mathura section (Delhi-Mumbai route) covering 324 Route Kilometres on July 30," the ministry said.
It added that Kavach has already been deployed on 1,548 RKm on South Central Railway and North Central Railway. Presently, work is in progress on the Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah corridors (approximately 3,000 RKm).
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