India and Japan has signed an agreement on enhancing railway safety in the Indian Railways with focus on railway track and rolling stock safety.
The areas of cooperation include rail inspection, rail wielding and providing automatic railway track safety inspection, maintenance of rolling stock and “any other relevant railway safety matters jointly determined by both sides” with the aim to prevent major rail accidents.
In 2016-17, the number of consequential train accidents remained the same level as last year at 95 while derailments rose from 56 to 74.