India News: AHMEDABAD: India rose to the challenges posed by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the centre an.
Unions Protest As Railways Mulls Opening Its Stadiums For Commercial use Unions Protest As Railways Mulls Opening Its Stadiums For Commercial use The Railways largest workers union has said the stadiums are not surplus and unusable railway land which can be handed over to anybody else.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said in March that 3 stadiums have been identified for asset monetisation.
New Delhi:
The Indian Railways largest workers union has hit out at the Railway Board over its decision to hand over 15 of its stadiums to the Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) to conduct techno-economic studies for commercial development .
In a reply to a query in Parliament in March this year, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal had said that the national transporter has identified 87 land parcels, 84 railway colonies, four hill railways and three stadiums for asset monetisation so far.
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Officials said that many of those dead were migrant workers who chose to walk home along the tracks. (File photo)
NEW DELHI: Over 8,700 people were mowed down on railway tracks in 2020 even though passenger train services were severely curtailed during the year due to the national coronavirus lockdown, with officials saying many of the victims were migrant workers.
The Railway Board shared the data on such deaths for the period between January and December 2020 in its reply to a question by Madhya Pradesh-based activist Chandra Shekhar Gaur under the Right to Information Act. Based on the information received from the State Police, 805 people suffered injuries and 8,733 people died on the railway track between January 2020 and December 2020, the Railway Board has said.