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Transform HR or Perish

Another train accident, few people dead, many more injured and a dozen enquiry committees to do a post-mortem of what wrong. Months of wait before the report comes and then the usual finger-pointing, some token compensation to the injured or to the next kin of the deceased and more departmental enquiry based on the earlier enquiry report...the process just keeps becoming longer...and soon public interest is lost...as is everything else. If you live in India then getting used to such things doesn't take too long. Anyways that's not the point. Some recent independent reports points to the fact that the human error is behind most rail accidents and even more shockingly the fact that most train drivers areoverworked & underslept . Some stats on how most train drivers are being given night duties at a stretch without the requisite break, much against the norms, to a large extent explains the increasing probability of human error. Putting employees and public life to risk c...