Thread by @Abhijeet_Sinhaa

Its People stooping in politics,
not KAVACH failing as Tech............. Thread 1/14

“I lost my father a week before and currently going through the feeling that any family member must be undergoing who lost their loved ones in the #BalasoreTrainAccident twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

"It hurts when overnight few ‘Modi Haters’ turned ‘Tech Experts’ stoop low in greed of opportunism & crush sympathy by airing various narratives that primarily suit their politics but fail to recognise action we need to take to stop such painful accidents forever in India.” 2/14 twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

#Kavach is an indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection System for which trials started after 2014. Its deployed in ongoing projects of South Central Railway. Kavach prevents head-on collisions when they are on the same track in the same or opposite direction. 3/14

But in the #Balasore accident, derailed coaches fell on the track which were then dashed by the train from the other direction. Kavach didn’t fail here, it wasn’t even deployed yet on that route or trains. It works only when both locomotives & track have that technology. 4/14

KAVACH confirms to SIL-4 which is the highest level of safety certificate. It’s amusing that these experts calling KAVACH a failure don’t even know that SIL-4 endures a PFD (Probability of Failure on Demand) minimum of 0.0001. times dangerous situation occurred, it’ll fail once.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

When RailMin @AshwiniVaishnaw risked his life in the Kavach trial for the safety of passengers. Then why did such accident happen? The reason for this accident is derailment & derailments in hot summers r related to physical & local caution on deformities of rail tracks. 6/14

Most nuclear power plants have SIL Level-3 which is half of SIL-4. Now hypothetically, even if KAVACH would have already been deployed on the Balasore route’s locomotives and tracks, still this derailment accident couldn’t have been prevented without physical checks. However,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

India has seen ZERO consequential train accidents by Collisions in the last 5 years (till May 2021) where KAVACH are deployed and replacing currently used European technology. However, in Europe 7 accidents were observed by collision in 2021. Deployment of Kavach initially faced… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Another group of experts who are unaware of the actual cause and not risking their reputation by calling KAVACH a failure are accusing the government of not filling 3.2 Lacs vacancies in railways where 50% of them are in the safety dept. They wouldn’t be able to comprehend the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Neither these experts would risk comparing the volume of previous govt with the recruitment process completed in @AshwiniVaishnaw tenure for filling up 35,281 direct recruitment vacancies in Non-Technical Popular Categories. 10/14

These level 6 recruitment including safety staff were conducted under CBT at 156 centres in 111 cities across 25 states. The overall attendance for this level was about 74%. The Level 4 CBT was conducted at 89 centers in 56 cities across 17 states. 11/14

Nor they wouldn’t risk even asking the question that why in a country like India is deprived of employment (according to these experts): that for a total vacancy of 3.2 Lac posts where at least 50% are in safety - Why only 2Lac were found qualified to be tested & Out of 1,80,882… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

These profiles are not found lucrative by the current generation and today's youth is not interested in joining as a key man on track after graduation who has to work as a gang man in the railway. They are more interested to go for a coding/ IT jobs in an overcrowded sector and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

PM & RailMin definitely has this critical challenge on their priority list to decide whether such local safety or cautious physical check and corrections either can be performed mechanically or make these profiles lucrative on the pay scale. 14/14

Time will tell us about his efficiency but definitely not called for resignation as failed Rail Minister because Kavach failed. The narrative that railway has inadequate safety staff and spending much on infra & stations’ modernisation and advanced hi-speed luxury trains is just… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…