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Mumbai stampede at Elphinstone station: Isro to help improve railway safety

Today, at least 22 people died in a stampede at Mumbai's Elphinstone railway station

Mumbai stampede at Elphinstone station: Isro to help improve railway safety
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Police look on at the site of a stampede that broke out on the Elpistion Railway Station bridge in Mumbai. Photo: PTI

Press Trust of India
Indian Railways is working with the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) to devise safety mechanisms to make travel by trains more safer, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday, a day before Mumbai stampede.

The minister said he met Isro Chairman A S Kiran Kumar a few days ago. Railways and RailTel are working together to explore use of space technology for safety, he added.

"Safety is a very pressing and urgent need. The discussion which we had was very eye-opening in some sense for me, but also very exciting in terms of possibilities that open for engaging