Japanese experts to help with rail safety

Team to stay from Mon to Fri

Japan announced on Monday that it has despatched “a team of railway safety experts to India”, and that they would reach on Monday for “discussions with the ministry of Railways and railway safety experts in India”, apart from “conducting site visits related to railway safety”.

India had requested Japan’s assistance on railway safety after a series of rail accidents this year rocked the country.

The Japanese team will be in India till Friday and “will examine the current status of railway safety in India and India’s needs for capacity development for railway safety”.

In a statement, the Japanese embassy said, “The government of Japan and the government of India are working closely on railway safety in India, based on the ‘Memorandum of Cooperation between the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan and the Ministry of Railways of the Republic of India on Rail Safety’, signed in February 2017, in response to the government of India’s request for the Japanese government’s support on railway safety, in December 2016.”

“The government of Japan dispatches this railway safety expert team based on the Government of India’s request submitted in July, 2017... The government of Japan expects that the dispatch of this railway safety expert team will enhance the level of cooperation on railway safety between Japan and India.”