Minister ignores flak for bullet train, says it’s a must for development

He added, “Employees of Mumbai Railways have accepted my request to not celebrate Dusshera in the wake of the Mumbai Stampede incident”.

Police have increased their count of the number of people injured in a deadly stampede on a crowded Mumbai pedestrian bridge to 32.

As Mumbai police appealed to citizens to donate blood to help the injured, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences to the families of those killed.

The stampede occurred about 10:30 a.m. local time on a footbridge at a train station in India’s financial hub- Mumbai.

Some Mumbaikars said government wants them to report issues on Twitter but doesn’t act when they do.

Will protest at Railway Headquarters on October 5 Raj Thackeray said that they will curate all the information of all railway stations and on October 5, they will carry out the protest at railway headquarters.

An Indian Railway Accident Relief Medical Equipment Train was rushed to the accident spot and began providing immediate medical assistance.

There have been calls for widening and repairing the bridge, which has to cope with a huge rush of people between the stations.

The function now stands cancelled and the minister, who hails from Mumbai, is taking stock of the situation. “Manufactured under the “Make In India” technology, it will be the best product for railways in the country”, Goyal said.

Goyal has announced a high-level probe headed by chief safety officer of Western Railway.

Last year, Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant even wrote to Mr Prabhu calling for repairs on the bridge. Top officials of the railways, disaster management, fire brigade and local administration reached the spot and rescue and relief work was expedited.

“The railways has to be also directed to take action against illegal hawkers and encroachers on foot overbridges (FoB) to reduce crowding”, the PIL said.

The Indian rail network carries more than 23 million passengers daily, the equivalent to moving the entire population of Australia, and connects 8,000 stations across the subcontinent.