3,000 People, 51 Hours: How Railways War Room Handled Odisha Train Tragedy
NDTV
The war room in Delhi was equipped with five cameras to put in place a communication system to alert which team needed what on the site, and also to ensure there was backup of workforce and material after every eight hours
A collision between two goods train in Berlin and Hannover in November last year saw the tracks being restored after 24 days, while it took five weeks for a track to get restored in Cyprus after a head-on collision.
In India, given the dependence on trains, delay was not an option, which is why among the most important actions that Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw insisted upon, hours after the triple train tragedy in Odisha's Balasore, was the restoration of railway tracks. But this was only one of the tasks the team had to do under pressure.
This was the task list:
