Cut The Clutter: How safety mismanagement, financial crisis & political instability made Railways’ a story foretold

It is a tragedy indeed, that one of India’s worst-ever train accidents — the Odisha three-train collision — has taken place now, in 2023, a time of cutting-edge tech & high-speed rail travel. While it is true that the number of rail accidents has come down — and that the exact cause of the Odisha accident is yet to be determined — the operations of the Indian Railways have been a subject of some scrutiny. We are talking about worrying CAG findings on derailments, a safety allocation that wasn’t, ballooning debt, and a once-plum job that is as unstable as it has been political. Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta explains in Ep 1245 of Cut The Clutter.