Emergency Response Team, Indian Railways

I would like to mention that the personnel who do the clean up job for the Emergency Response Team of the Indian Railways are ill equipped. I go by the photographs that were published in the newspapers during recent train accidents. It shows the dereliction of duty by the top guns of the Indian Railways in not providing them the basic needs that are part of such clean up job. Such personnel are not given hand gloves when they remove the bodies of the passengers forcing them to use their bare hands. They don’t have shoes when they have to walk on the railroads. I have not seen any of them wearing safety jackets, helmets, etc. No one should be allowed to do such job if his or her wellbeing is at risk. Safety comes first not only for the passengers but also for the people who do the noble job of cleaning up rail accidents. The otherworldly treatment meted out to such personnel has to be deplored in word and spirit.