ECR takes up awareness drive to check accidents at unmanned

Taking a note of accidents occurring at unmanned railway crossing, the East Central Railway (ECR) zone has taken up intense public awareness campaign as preventive measure.
ECR has been regularly creating awareness through newspapers, TV, Radio, hoarding, posters, pamphlet and organising 'nukkad natak' to make people aware of the danger of casually crossing railway tracks and negotiating unmanned crossing oblivious of running of trains, Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of ECR Arvind Kumar Rajak said in a statement.
ECR comprises Mughalsarai, Danapur, Sonepur, Dhanbad and Samastipur divisions.
Last month, Additional General Manager of ECR T P Singh had said that the Railway is working on manning 802 unmanned Railway crossings, building road over bridges and road under bridges in East Central Railway zone by 2020 in a bid to check accidents.

The CPRO said in 2014-15, the ECR constructed 14 ROBs and 16 RUBs. Similarly, in 2015-16 it built 17 RUBs and 7 ROBs.
He said it has been noticed that in majority of incidents of collisions of vehicles with train, fault was found on the drivers' part.
At least 14 persons had died in Dhanbad division in December 2015 when a MUV tried to illegally cross and collided with a train near Bharkunda station.
In August 14, 2014, 19 people had lost their lives as an overloaded Tempo tried to cross the track and collided with a train near Semra station under Samastipur division.