Reality check

Indian Railways creaks under the strain of passenger volume and appears clueless about how to prevent trains and railway stations from turning into death traps for commuters. Its crumbling infrastructure makes risk assessments irrelevant. Lives are lost in a train accident one day, in a stampede another day. Tragedies like the stampede at the Elphinstone Road station are a reality check and puncture the claim that we are poised to become a superpower.
 
The foot over-bridge built during the British era could not stand “population pressure”. Warnings of danger by public-spirited men, a member of Parliament and the Comptroller