NEW DELHI: More than 70 per cent of all unmanned level crossings (UMLCs) are in five railway zones, official data shows.
These five zones – labelled by the national transporter as ‘critical’, as they have the most unmanned level crossings – have 2,556 UMLCs out of a total of 3,479 such crossings on broad-gauge across the railway network.
Thirteen children were killed in an accident yesterday in Khushinagar when a train rammed into their school van. The area falls under the North Eastern Railway zone headquartered in Gorakhpur and has 553 such UMLCs.
However, officials said today that the level crossing in Khushinagar where the accident occurred was a low route, where trains don’t travel frequently or at high speeds.
The other zones in the critical list include Northern Railway zone with headquarters in Delhi (606), Western Railway in Mumbai (638), North Western Railway in Jaipur (311) and East Central Railway at Hajipur (448). (AGENCIES)
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