A refund of roughly ₹102.96 crore was granted on account of practice cancellations, between June 14 and June 30, 2022
A refund of roughly ₹102.96 crore was granted on account of practice cancellations, between June 14 and June 30, 2022
The Railways has suffered a lack of about ₹259.44 crore within the present 12 months thus far, because of injury/destruction of railway belongings, largely as a result of protests towards Agnipath scheme, Parliament was knowledgeable, on Wednesday.
“In the year 2022, Indian Railways suffered a loss of ₹259.44 crores due to damage/destruction of railway assets. Separate data regarding the amount of refund granted to passengers due to disruption of rail services on account of public disorder consequent to agitation like those held after launching of Agnipath scheme is not maintained,” Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw mentioned, in a written reply to Lok Sabha.
He, nonetheless, added that throughout the interval June 14-June 30, 2022, a complete refund of roughly ₹102.96 crore was granted on account of cancellation of trains.
As per the information shared by the minister, over the last three years, the losses incurred by the Indian Railways because of different types of agitation stood at ₹151 crore in 2019, ₹904 crore in 2020 and ₹62 crore in 2021. Additionally, throughout 2019, 2020 and 2021, the variety of instances registered on account of destruction of railway property are 95, 30 and 34, respectively.
“No recoveries to compensate for the loss occurred to railways have been made so far,” he mentioned, including that no compensation has been paid to the passengers and their households, who died/injured throughout this protest.
The States of Bihar and Telangana have witnessed most destruction of railway property as a result of law-and-order state of affairs throughout the present 12 months, as much as June.
“Considering the report of High-Level Safety Review Committee (Kakodkar Committee), guidelines have been issued to Zonal Railways for filing compensation claim cases in the court of law in cases of disruption and vandalism suffered by Railways during agitations, rail roko, bandh etc,” the minister added.
Coordination maintained
Mr. Vaishnaw mentioned that common coordination is maintained by Railway Police Force (RPF) with the State Police/Government Railway Police (GRP) authorities in any respect ranges for the prevention of crime, registration of instances, their investigation and upkeep of regulation & order in railway premises in addition to in operating trains.
In order to test the injury to railway property on account of protests towards the launching of the Agnipath Scheme, senior officers of RPF had been rushed to susceptible areas from different non-sensitive workplaces/formations to actively reply to the necessity arising out of the state of affairs, he mentioned.
Further, in all incidents of injury/destruction, instances have been registered and offenders are being recognized, adopted with their arrest, and inquiry into these instances is carefully monitored by senior officers.
“Close coordination is being made and coordinated efforts are being taken to identify and apprehend the offenders using modern technology. Preparedness to tackle such a situation is also reviewed by associating MHA, CAPFs and State Police. Social Media platforms through which perpetrators were encouraged/ incited to participate in violence were identified and disrupted. Cyber cells were tasked to identify the WhatsApp group and to track the social media platforms to gather movements of perpetrators so that their activities and movements could be monitored,” he mentioned.
“No recoveries to compensate for the loss occurred to railways have been made so far”Ashwini VaishnawMinister of Railways
Source: www.thehindu.com