Anil Kakodkar Committee Recommendations

The report of the high-level safety review committee under the Chairmanship of former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission  Anil Kakodkar was submitted in February 2012.

The Kakodkar Committee has made a slew of recommendations of which some of the key ones are:

• Stopping the practice of introduction of new trains without commensurate inputs to the infrastructure
• Having a statutory Railway Safety Authority and measures to strengthen the present Railway Safety Commission to undertake meaningful regulatory inspections
• Setting up a Railway Research and Development Council at the apex level directly under the government. This council should have Advance Railway Research Institute and five railway research centres for key safety-related railway disciplines
• Adoption of an advanced signalling system based on continuous track circuiting and cab signalling similar to European train control system Level-II
• Total elimination of all level crossings (manned and unmanned) within five years.

The estimated cost of the implementation of Kakodkar recommendations was Rs. One Lakh Crore.