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Kurla station recorded alarming number of passenger deaths, reveals NGO report
Updated On: 25 November, 2023 06:59 AM IST | Mumbai | Anurag Kamble
Jurisdiction tops rail-related deaths since 2017, claiming close to 2,000 lives in the period. Borivli and Mumbai Central follow, as rail officials say they are trying their best to prevent accidents but commuters, too, must act with more responsibility
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Twenty-eight per cent of the deaths in 2022 were of people falling off trains. File pic
Kurla railway station now has the dubious distinction of being a death trap for railway passengers within city limits, according to an NGO report released recently. The station has witnessed 1,982 deaths in the last five years, while Borivali railway station has witnessed the most number of passengers injured. A majority of the deaths (43 per cent) on tracks occurred in 2022 owing to crossing the railway tracks, followed by falling off the train (28 per cent). Railway officials say they are doing their best to prevent fatalities by putting up fences and enforcement at platforms but passengers, too, need to be cautious.
The Praja Foundation report—‘The status of policing and law and order in Mumbai’—sheds light on the deaths and injuries that occur at railway stations within Mumbai city and suburban limits. The statistics obtained by the foundation reveal that Kurla railway station has been a death trap for passengers for the last five years.
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