Ex.44, Mr. Vice-Chairman, the Minister

Mr. Vice-Chairman, the Minister of Railways has given us some impressive figures regarding route mileage the number of passenger trains that run every day, the number of goods trains that run every day, the number of millions of passengers who travel by train. He has tried to compare them. In view of the vastness of the country the large number of passenger trains being run, the large number of goods trains being run and the big route mileage he has tried to show that the number of accidents that have occurred is not quite alarming. I do not know what his idea was when he tried to compare the number of accidents against this background. Committees have been appointed when serious accidents took place to find out why such and such accident took place.