AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi criticised the Centre for not taking steps to prevent frequent train derailments and said such incidents are causing loss of lives and railway property. He also said that the landslide in Kerala's Wayanad was a natural calamity.
Banna Gupta, Jharkhand's Minister of Health, Medical Education, and Family Welfare, extended his condolences to the families affected by the train derailment and said that Chief Minister Hemant Soren has announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for each bereaved family.
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Tuesday condoled the loss of lives in the Howrah-Mumbai train accident near Jharkhand's Chakradharpur and wished a speedy recovery for those who sustained injuries in the mishap.
Moradabad Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), Raj Kumar Singh, spoke to ANI and said, "We are working on both lines simultaneously. We will fix the downline first to start the movement of the trains. It will take up to 2 hours, and then we will fix the up line, and it will take 6-8 hours."
CPRO North Eastern Railway Pankaj Kumar on Friday confirmed that as many as three people have been killed in the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailment. Seven have been critically injured and five people have sustained minor injuries.
Divisional Railway Manager of North-Eastern Railway Aditya Kumar on Friday said that around 800 railway personnel carried out the restoration work after the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailed in Gonda.
The General Manager of North Eastern Railway, Saumya Mathur on Friday said that the restoration work is underway, adding that within a few hours, the upline will be restored.
The restoration work is underway at the site of the accident after the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailed in Gonda, claiming the lives of three people and injuring 30.
After the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailment, which claimed two lives, North Eastern Railway General Manager Saumya Mathur announced that an ex-gratia relief of Rs 10 lakh would be provided to the family of deceased.
After the Kanchenjunga train mishap this year, which claimed 10 lives, another train accident happened on Tuesday when the Dibrugarh Express derailed near Jhilahi Railway Station in Gonda, where two people were killed and at least twenty sustained injuries.