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Balasore train accident: Mamata Banerjee demands proper probe into Odisha train accident
CM Mamta said that the family members of those who lost their limbs in the horrific accident will also be given government jobs.
Banerjee said that her government would also provide cash assistance to the people on board the plane. Coromandel Express And at this time going through mental and physical torture.
she will go to bhubaneswar Ridge On Tuesday, he met the injured passengers undergoing treatment in various hospitals.
He said that at present 206 injured passengers from West Bengal have been admitted in various hospitals of Odisha.
“There are 33 serious passengers in hospitals in Cuttack,” he said, adding that some ministers and senior officials from Bengal would accompany them. She will distribute ex-gratia checks and appointment letters to the families of the victims on Wednesday.
The Bengal chief minister said she did not want to get into any politics over the accident and would do everything to help the injured passengers and their families.
Sources said Banerjee canceled her four-day visit to Darjeeling at the last moment of the day to oversee the treatment and rehabilitation of passengers from the state who were injured in the train accident.
Sources in the secretariat said the Trinamool Congress chief was to visit Darjeeling, where she was to meet members of all political parties in the Hills ahead of the panchayat elections to be held later this year.
The source told PTI-language, “She wants to stay in Kolkata and see how the injured passengers from West Bengal, who were victims of the Coromandel Express accident, are being treated and rehabilitated.” She will visit the hills later.
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Special treatment should be given to Railways, seems there is a gap in coordination: Mamata Banerjee on Balasore tragedy
freight train loaded with coal from Vizag Port To Rourkela Steel Plant Hours after both the up line and down line tracks were repaired, the company became the first to run on the restored tracks at around 10.40 pm on Sunday night.
Officials said the first high speed passenger train – Howrah-Puri Vande Bharat Express – passed through the same tracks from Balasore on Monday morning.
Officials said Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav was present at the accident site and waved to the drivers when the train passed by.
The Coromandel Express collided with a stationary goods train at 7 pm on 2 June, derailing most of its coaches.
Some coaches of the Coromandel fell on top of the previous coaches Bangalore-Howrah Express who was passing through at the same time. A goods train was also hit in the accident.
Investigators are probing possible human error, signal failure and other possible causes behind the three train accidents.
(With PTI inputs)