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New Delhi, June 5: Following the horrific train accident in Odishas Balasore on Friday evening that claimed 275 lives, an official document showed that the national transporter did not have lack of funds, as it spent over Rs 1 lakh crore between 2017-18 and 2021-22 from its Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK) funds.

Four days after the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express was involved in a triple train accident near Bahanaga Bazar station in Odisha's Balasore district, the down train from Chennai crossed the accident site at 30kmph on Tuesday. As the train passed through, a sizeable number of onlookers witnessed the locomotive chug through the distance. Watch | Odisha train accident:

In Delhi, top railway officials virtually ruled out driver error and played down the likelihood of a system malfunction, saying the interlocking system was ‘error-proof’ and ‘failsafe’

In the Modi govt’s recent blockbuster reshuffle, the biggest star was Ashwini Vaishnaw, a 50-year-old plucked from relative oblivion to the high seat of Railway, IT ministries. However, for those looking, Vaishnaw has always been around, making a slow and steady rise.

In recent months, passengers have been complaining of delays and poor conditions on board trains, despite paying higher fares.

 Railways to conduct final location survey for new semi high speed rail line

Southern Railway to Introduce Semi-High-Speed Train Service on Bengaluru-Chennai Route. This service is expected to reduce travel time to just two hours between Bengaluru and Chennai, operating at a maximum speed of 200 kmph with 16 coaches, including two executive class coaches. Fully reserved and set to launch in the coming months. , Bengaluru News, Times Now

Indian Railways on Sunday said that indigenously-developed automatic train protection system Kavach, which was not installed on the route where the accident in Odishas Balasore occurred on Friday evening, could not have prevented it.

In order to facilitate the families of those who are still unaware about whereabouts of their relatives in the unfortunate Rail accident in Bahanaga, Odisha, Indian Railways with the support of Odisha Government has taken an initiative to locate them.

Dinesh Trivedi, a former Railway Minister and top West Bengal BJP leader, slammed Mamata Banerjee for her Dal mein kuch kaala hai comment on the Odisha train accident and said that Mamata Banerjee is a very senior leader and Chief Minister of West Bengal, and such a statement was not expected from her.