Railways set to hire 200,000 workers to make your train travel safer

With 16 percent of the safety posts lying vacant, patrolling of rail tracks difficult

Close to 200,000 workers are set to join Indian Railways in the next few years with the world's fourth largest rail network aiming to strenghten its safety measures in the wake of recent accidents, according to a Economic Times report. This will take the total number of employees working for the railways from 1.3 million to 1.5 million, a huge jump of almost 15 percent. 

The massive recruitment drive by the largest PSU followed a series of mishaps in the last three years which accounted for at least 650 deaths, the report said. 

As of December 2016, Railways has a