Public address systems will be installed at all railway stations, including small ones, to warn people about oncoming trains and crossing unguarded railway tracks, Minister of State for Railways Narayan Singh Rathwa said Monday.
Rathwa was in Bhopal to inquire about an incident Sunday in which a speeding train mowed down 12 people at a railway station 20 km from here.
"There is a need to install the public address systems to warn people so that such accidents can be avoided. We need to have the systems even at small places," the minister told reporters.
The Chennai-Lucknow Express crushed the people, including a woman, while they were engaged in brawl on a track in Sukhi Sewania station near Bhopal.
Indian Railway has announced compensation of Rs.100,000 to the kin of the dead while the Madhya Pradesh government has given a similar amount to them.
Rathwa said the railway was not responsible in any way for the accident. "But we have given the money on compassionate grounds," he said.
--Indo-Asian News Service