Indian Railway Minister Ashwini Vishnu says that the real cause of the Odisha train accident has been revealed and the persons responsible have also been identified.
According to Indian media reports, the Minister of Railways says that the relief work has been completed from the scene of the accident and the train service will be restored in the next few days.
During the debate on the Kovac system after the train accident, the Congress had demanded the resignation of the railway minister and asked when the Modi government would install the system.
The railway minister said that the train accident had nothing to do with this system, it was the change in electronic interlocking that led to the accident.
He said that electronic point machine is an important device in railway signaling and electronic interlocking, the setting of this point was changed due to which the accident took place.
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Ashwini Vishnu said that why and how this setting was changed will be known after the investigation report.
It should be noted that the number of people killed in the train accident has exceeded 300, there were about 2 thousand passengers in the train.
