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Odisha derailment: Why do trains keep going off track in India?

According to the 2022 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report, railway accidents witnessed a 38.2 per cent surge in 2021 as compared to the previous year and as many as 11,036 people were killed due to either falling off trains or colliding with it at railway tracks. An internal railways memo in 2014 called the fracturing of tracks “the nightmare of the [railways] engineering department”. Lack of maintenance and funds is also what is ailing the Indian Railways.