Last evening, some 60 persons got killed by a train , near
Amritsar
They were standing on railway tracks to watch burning of an
effigy of Ravana
Predictably , politicians rushed to the accident site ,
visited injured in hospitals , blamed rail authorities / government in power ,
announced “ compensations ( Rs 2 lakhs / Rs 5 lakhs ) to the kin, etc etc
Railway minister Shri Piyush Goyalji has also ordered “ mandatory inquiry “
I am surprised and anguished
Surprised that , despite being tech-savvy , why did he want
to waste time , ordering a brand new / fresh inquiry ?
All he had to do is to input into IBM’s Watson Artificial
Intelligence software , reports of inquiries of the past 25 major train
accidents !
Voila !
Within a matter of minutes, Watson would spew out a BRAND
NEW REPORT ( of course , location / date / no killed / no injured etc would
need to be filled in at the blank spaces manually )
Now the anguish part
I quite appreciate that Railways cannot construct 10 feet
tall walls on both sides of the 115,000 km long train tracks , all over India,
although Mumbai-Nagpur Super Highway is planning to do just that for its 700 km
length , for a sum of Rs 6,000 crore ( - knowing that this has not worked in
Mumbai )
But what prevented the Railways to “ explore “ the
possibility of my suggestions sent to Shri Suresh Prabhu ( the then Rail
Minister ) vide following emails ?
Indian
Railways : A Trillion Dollar Opportunity [
03 Sept 2016 ]
Not so Futuristic ? [
11 Sept
2016 ]
A Matter
of Shame ! [ 13 March 2017 ]
A Prabhu – on – Earth ? [
19 Aug
2017 ]
Where Prabhu failed, will
Piyush succeed ? [ 18 Mar 2018 ]
Killer Tracks of Mumbai Locals [ 23 Mar 2018
]
Dear Shri Piyush Goyalji,
May be you did not get to read my
earlier e mails
I urge you to take a few minutes
to read my suggestion ( re low
voltage EMP devices to be installed along the train tracks ) – then , for
an expert opinion on its feasibility , write to :
Dr D V Giri
Pro – Tech , Alamo
, CA
Adjunct Prof , Dept
of ECE , University of Mexico ( www.dvgiri.com )
21 Oct
2018
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
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