According to South Central Railway (SCR) officials of Vijayawada Division, the victims were proceeding to Chennai from Warangal, Vijayawada and other places.
Twenty-eight passengers, including ten women, boarded the Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu Express train, which met with a major fire accident near Nellore in the early hours of Monday.
Most of the passengers who boarded the ill-fated train at Vijayawada were aged between 20 and 30 years.
According to South Central Railway (SCR) officials of Vijayawada Division, the victims were proceeding to Chennai from Warangal, Vijayawada and other places. New Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Pradeep Kumar, outgoing DRM Anurag and other officials rushed to Nellore in early in the morning.
Thirty-five passengers were burnt alive and more than 25 persons suffered critical burns in the mishap.
Teams rushed
Special teams comprising of engineering, TTEs, commercial, security, electrical and other wings were deputed to Nellore railway station for taking up relief operations for the injured passengers. A medical team was sent from Bitragunta.
Additional DRM Subba Rao was monitoring the situation from Vijayawada.
The injured were admitted to Dodla Subbareddy Government General Hospital, Nellore, Jai Bharat Hospital, Bollineni, and People’s Polyclinic Hospitals in the city, said the railway authorities here. Officials are finding in tough to trace the details of the passengers as many of them had not mentioned their address, phone numbers and other details fully on the forms while making reservation.
The SCR officials opened a help desk at Vijayawada Railway Station and Control Room at DRM’s office for disseminating information to the public about the mishap and the details of the injured/dead passengers.
Keywords: Tamil Nadu Express fire: Tamil Nadu Express, train accident, Nellore railway station, Nellore train mishap, TN Express fire
The reaction of these government agencies is always after the fact, when a progressive Railway Minister was taking charge and was raising the charges minimally so as to make our Railways more safer, he was hounded out of office by Mamta Benarjee and an impotent Congress government. Before her Laloo introduced the most useless things in railways such as water in clay pots. With such partners in the government how can Indians expect any change?
These ministers should be thrown in those infernos so they can feel common man's pain and suffering.
Smoke Detectors indicating the coach should be available at the drivers cabin (DIGITAL DISPLAY OF COACH NO.) which were already tested on some trains can be put active in the night and punish those who smoke in the compartments in the night to avoid unnecessary hindrance to the Effective usage of smoke alarms.
On alarm, assistant driver should communicate to the indicated attendant, police, tte, of that coatch and find out is it necessary to stop the train or activate priventive measures.
Public awareness campaign should be thoroughly planned prior to implimentation of such projects in the train at least 3 months prior to start punishing smokers in the night.
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