NEW DELHI, June 12: After a video went viral showing dilapidated rail coaches requisitioned to transport over a thousand BSF personnel from Tripura to Jammu, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, just to defuse the situation ordered the suspension of four Railway Officials responsible for the decision.
The BSF personnel were being moved for security duty for the upcoming Amarnath Yatra.
Those suspended included a coaching depot officer and three senior section engineers from the Alipurduar division under the Northeast Frontier Railway for undermining the dignity of the security forces and failing to allocate clean coaches but it is a matter of enquiry whether these 04 officers are empowered to do so or some higfher officers to detect the full issue of such a big negligence?
However, an inquiry has also been ordered & the minister said such negligence would not be tolerated.
Previously, when the BSF personnel arrived to board the train on June 10, they found the coaches in “unhygienic” condition. The videos they recorded went viral and sparked a public outcry.
The Modi Government faced a very big criticism.
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