Is the Railways really faultless or scot free in the Amritsar tragedy?

IS THE RAILWAY REALLY SCOT FREE/ faultless IN THE AMRITSAR TRAGEDY?
The political parties of the country have no right to play politics on the corpses of the deceaseds of the most despicable killings by the two trains in extreme speed in Amritsar on the day of Vijaydashmi claiming 60 lives and grievously injuring more than 50 innocent persons.

Sounds really shocking that while the Punjab government led by the Congress party has ordered an enquiry into the whole episode the report of which would be tabled in four days including the instant announcement of the compensation of 5 lakh rupees each to the bereaved family of those bludgeoned in this horrible mishapening compounded with the 2 lakh rupees compensation by the union government, the adamant Railway department has not taken the courage to either institute the enquiry for the alleged lapse on its part nor has it exhibited the courage n decency to compensate the completely ruined bereaved families monetarily.

Despite the hard fact that the entire agencies of the state government and the railways had been allegedly guilty for mishandling the situation leading to this most tragic mishappening the balme game has started with every agency trying to come scot free as they were only the public or the deceased who were responsible and not the Railways or the state government.

What is most worrisome is the fact that the Railway ministry has expressed its total ignorance or had come in the denial mode despite the known fact that the people had been crushed or mowed down under the speeding trains , MDU n the Amritsar bound express thus destroying the the future of several traumatic families who’d lost their near and dear ones’ and the sole bread earners.

Where will they go now ? How will they survive ? Is Rs 7 lakh provided to them as monetary compensation would suffice for the distressed families for survival during their entire lives.

Sounds completely irrational and shocking. The union minister of the Railways Piyush Goyal who is currently in the US in connection with the official work has continued his stay there though he had earlier promised to come to India cancelling all engagements.

The state minister of Railways Manoj Sinha who was very prompt to visit the tragedy site in Amritsar says that the trains are meant to ply in speed and since they were not informed by the Punjab administration in advance about the Vijaydashmi event despite the fact that the effigy burning programme had been happening since long in this ground near the open railway tracks, there is no reason for him to order for an enquiry.

He added : I have personally visited the site and examined every aspect of the mishappening and found that the Railways were not at all at fault, then what for is the need for any enquiry ?

The chairman of the Railway Board Ashwani Lohani says that the railway lines are not meant to squat, loiter or stand on them hence the accident occured. And as such how is the Railways responsible for this tragedy ?

The point is if the Railways are not responsible under whose trains this heart rendering and treacherous massacre occured, then who is respinsible ? The trains were of the railways, plying on full speed, the tracks are of the railways.

The moot point is if functions are organised in the open ground situated near the open Railway tracks every year and the railways as well as the local administration very well knows that the people of the adjacent colonies cross the tracks usually and even witness events from here then why had the railways not constructed boundaries along the railway tracks to avoid the tress passers cross them, especially when the tracks are attached with the ground ?

Where was the Railway police to avoid this tragic mishappening and how long will such horrible accidents continue to happen in railway tracks close to such grounds where functions are held ?

Simply passing on the bucks on other agencies won’t do. Analysts say that since there is the government of the Congress in the state and the BJP is at the centre the entire episode has assumed political character with both the parties and governments accusing each other by shifting the blame game on the other side. This is most inhuman and uncalled for.

Under such circumstances the Punjab Government and the Railways should have taken the cumulative responsibility on their shoulders together and have instead of shying away from owning the responsibilty for this huge lapse must have jountly come forward and adequately compensated each and every family of the deceaseds n grievously injured and punish the guilty to maintain the highest traditions of decency n morality.

There was a time when the former Railway ministers like late P. M. Lal Bahadur Shastri n late Madhav Rao Scindia had resigned from their respective posts when accidents occured to maintain the greatest tradition of morality and decency in public life but unfortunately, now even after 60 tragic deaths no minister at the helm seems to have bothered to take the moral respinsibilty n show valour to resign on moral grounds?

What’s your take friends?