4.4.6. Safety

♤ A fortnight long massive safety drive launched to focus on measures to prevent derailments.

♤ Indian Railways is working on an action plan on eliminating unmanned level crossings from the railway network. The exercise is a sub-mission of the Railways “Mission Zero Accident”. Regular awareness campaigns are underway to sensitize the public about taking precautions while crossing unmanned level crossing.

♤ TRI-NETRA - Terrain imaging for diesel drivers Infrared, Enhanced Optical & Radar Assisted system trial launched.

♤ An action plan has also been chalked out for retro-fitting of the existing 45,000 ICF designed coaches with better safety features over the next 3 to 4 years.

♤ It is decided that Indian Railways would completely switch over to the production of LHB coaches, which are designed with better safety features like anti-climbing and anti- telescoping.

♤ Japan and Korea have been roped in to improve the safety performance of Indian Railways.