SAFETY PROCEDURES BYPASSED

Safety cannot be just assumed; it has to be ensured. The administration should have informed the rail authorities at the divisional headquarters about the function. Is it all that necessary to invite a political VIP at such a socio-religious function? Also, why wait for her? The railways gateman and other patrolling staff, on seeing such a huge crowd near and on the tracks, are required to alert station masters on both sides of the site, who in turn should have intimated the divisional control office at Ferozepur and got a ‘Look Out Caution’ orders issued.

Tejinder Singh Kalra,

Mohali