Tag: Mumbai stampede
13 Results
-
How very convenient
A lack of the moral courage to accept shortcomings is a malaise from which all government agencies suffer ~ it now extends to inquiry panels. If there was “shock” over the death of 23 persons in the stampede at an over-bridge at the Elphinstone Road station on the Western Railway line of Mumbai’s suburban system, there …
Continue reading "How very convenient"
October 13, 2017 -
Mumbai stampede: Railway norms violated for overbridge
The Railways violated its own guidelines on foot-overbridges (FOBs) at stations which it had formulated in 2012-13 in the case of the one at Elphinstone Road station in Mumbai where a stampede occurred last month killing 22 people and leaving 33 injured. The breadth of the bridge was half what it should have been. According to the …
Continue reading "Mumbai stampede: Railway norms violated for overbridge"
October 9, 2017 -
Prepared for the unforeseen
The tragic stampede on the over bridge connecting Mumbai Elphinstone and Parel stations has thrown up once more the question of how an emergency situation is not factored in when rapidly expanding the urban infrastructure. While the Mumbai tragedy site was an old structure badly in need of expansion, bridges, fly-overs and Metro stations, to …
Continue reading "Prepared for the unforeseen"
October 2, 2017 -
Day after stampede, Goyal announces passenger safety measures
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal today announced a slew of measures for safety of commuters with a focus on foot-over bridges (FOBs) in the country, a day after 23 people died in a stampede at a crowded station in Mumbai. He said the FOBs would now be “mandatory” at all stations. Previously, only the first FOB …
Continue reading "Day after stampede, Goyal announces passenger safety measures"
October 1, 2017 -
KEM hospital under fire for numbering Elphinstone tragedy bodies
Authorities at the KEM hospital have come in for severe criticism for marking numbers on the bodies of the Elphinstone station stampede victims and putting up their pictures on public display. The hospital claimed the measure was taken to “avoid chaos”. The pictures of the victims, with numbers on their foreheads, were put up on …
Continue reading "KEM hospital under fire for numbering Elphinstone tragedy bodies "
September 30, 2017 -
Mumbai stampede: President, VP, PM extend condolences
President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed anguish over the Mumbai stampede on the foot overbridge between Elphinstone Road and Parel suburban railway stations in which at least 22 people were killed and scores injured on Friday. They extended condolences to the families of the deceased. In …
Continue reading "Mumbai stampede: President, VP, PM extend condolences"
September 30, 2017 -
Rains, loud thud, thousands on 6-8-ft overbridge: Witnesses tell story of stampede
It was raining cats and dogs this morning and Manish Mishra was in the safety of his home near the city’s Elphinstone Road railway station when he suddenly heard a loud thud. Outside, he saw “thousands cramped” in the six-to-eight- feet foot overbridge– people scrambling to get down the stairs, some climbing up to …
September 29, 2017 -
Mumbai stampede: Opposition demands judicial probe
Opposition parties in Maharashtra demanded a judicial enquiry into Friday’s stampede at Ephinstone Road railway foot overbridge in which 22 commuters were crushed to death. State Congress President Ashok Chavan, who went to visit the victims at the tragedy site and the KEM Hospital, also met relatives of the deceased and the injured undergoing treatment …
Continue reading "Mumbai stampede: Opposition demands judicial probe"
September 29, 2017 -
Rs.10 lakh compensation to kin of stampede victims: Piyush Goyal
The kin of people, who died in a stampede at a railway foot over bridge (FOB) here this morning, will get a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said. Making an announcement here, he said the Railway Ministry as well as the Maharashtra government would provide an ex- gratia of …
Continue reading "Rs.10 lakh compensation to kin of stampede victims: Piyush Goyal"
September 29, 2017 -
Shiv Sena says Mumbai stampede is ‘massacre’
In a blistering attack on its ally the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shiv Sena on Friday termed the stampede in which 22 railway commuters were killed as a “public massacre”. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut told the media: “The stampede on the foot overbridge at Elphinstone Road railway station is a apublic massacre of …
Continue reading "Shiv Sena says Mumbai stampede is ‘massacre’"
September 29, 2017 -
Vice President, PM Modi condole Mumbai stampede deaths
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi today expressed condolences over the deaths caused by a stampede in Mumbai and said the situation was being monitored continuously. Naidu said he was shocked to learn about the incident. “My deepest condolences to the bereaved families who have lost their dear ones and wish …
Continue reading "Vice President, PM Modi condole Mumbai stampede deaths"
September 29, 2017 -
Elphinstone stampede: Fadnavis announces Rs.5 lakh compensation for dead
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has announced a compensation of Rs.5 lakh for the next of kin of the 22 people who died in the Mumbai stampede on Friday. “₹5 lakh announced for the next of the kins of deceased and all the medical expenses of the injured will be borne by GoM (Government of …
Continue reading "Elphinstone stampede: Fadnavis announces Rs.5 lakh compensation for dead"
September 29, 2017 -
Railway Minister Goyal orders high level probe into Elphinstone stampede
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has ordered a ‘high level enquiry’ headed by the Chief Safety Officer of Western Railways in the stampede at Parel railway station that has claimed 22 lives. “Just landed in Mumbai. Deeply grieved at tragic loss of innocent lives due to an unfortunate stampede at Elphinstone Road foot over bridge. Have …
Continue reading "Railway Minister Goyal orders high level probe into Elphinstone stampede"
September 29, 2017