I would like to reiterate my strong conviction and belief in the phrase, Safety Never Sleeps as emphasized by Mamata Banerjee all along. I believe that safety on Indian Railways has to be benchmarked against other modern railway systems in the world, be it in Europe or Japan. Safety standards have been remarkable systems in the world, be it in Europe or Japan. Safety standards have been remarkable in these systems, with no deaths due to rail accidents for decades together on high speed routes. Although I am not at all satisfied with the safety standards at the present moment, I must inform the august House that the entire railway family is equally concerned and has been making concerted efforts in this direction. The commitment made in 2001 to reduce accidents per million train Km from 0.55 to 0.17 has been achieved. However, our target should be zero death. I would like to inform the august House that more than 40% of the consequential train accidents, involving 60% to 70% of the total casualties occur at unmanned level crossings. However, funding is an issue which needs to be collectively addressed. To fast track elimination of level crossings in the next five years. In order to achieve even higher safety on Indian Railways, I decided to set up a committee to examine the current standards of safety on Indian Railways and to suggest suitable benchmarks and safety protcols. Considering the zero tolerance approach in the areas of nuclear science and aerospace, I felt that the best people to guide railways in determing appropriate safety protocols should be from these two fields. Can he create a new framework, a new regime in which the region like the Konkan Region it is one of the most backward ones, which has a potential to grow can really be taken care of? The Government has taken credit for a laudable programme which has been endorsed by almost all the Parties in Parliament. The Government said that that we must write off loan of farmers. But there are many segments of farmers who have not yet been covered by this Loan Waiver Scheme. For example, the fishermen are there who cannot be treated differently. Fishermen also depend on farmers. They do fishing in the sea. The farmers do it on land. The farmers get the benefit of loan waiver programme. PM interacts with Tokyo-bound athletes. The country's 'bold confident and positive' athletes reflect the aspirations of "New India", said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who invoked the common factors of 'discipline, dedication and determination' to wish India's Tokyo-bound athletes success in their endeavour to bring Olympics medal glory to the nation during his informal virtual interaction with them on Tuesday. Modi, who hailed the athletes commitment and competitiveness symbolising the country's promising sporting future, informed the sportspersons that the entire nation was standing behind each one of them with a 'new thinking and approach'. Work hard and I am confident that you all are going to be successful at the Olympics. Narndra Modi Prime Minister of India. While addressing the athletes, PM Modi regretted the fact that the couldn't host the athletes due to the pandemic. He remember that the pandemic has changed their practice regimen and even the year of the Olympics.
