The CJP hit the nail on the head the other day when he remarked that the railway minister ought to have resigned after the incident of eruption of fire in railway compartments sometime back in which a couple of invaluable lives were lost. The point is that the ministers in this country haven’t developed the culture of accepting responsibility if anything goes wrong in their ministry and it is the lower echelon of the ministry which is always made a sacrificial lamb.
In the not-too-distant past a number of passengers were killed in a railway accident in this country. It so happened that a similar rail accident had occured a couple of days before of that accident in India too where the Indian railways minister had resigned from his job by accepting full responsibility for it. When a newspaper correspondent asked our railway minister whether he too would resign from his job by taking a cue from the resignation of his Indian counterpart, he laughingly brushed aside the question by saying that he was a Muslim and a Muslim is not supposed to copy the tradition set up by a Hindu. It is a pity that we have spoiled our railway system over the years which we had inherited in a very good shape from our colonial masters on the eve of partition in 1947.
Our railway minister is , however, hundred percent right when he says that the railway track has completed its shelf life and needs immediate replacement otherwise the entire railway system is going to collapse before long.
The railway minister should concentrate on replacing the worn out railway track instead of taking a fancy for inaugurating new railway trains on new routes.
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