New Delhi, April 22 -- Railway safety and the way track maintenance is done in India are set for a complete overhaul over the next 5-8 years, with new technology replacing century-old practices, Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnav said while addressing the All India Track Maintainers Conference.

Speaking to a gathering of trackmen and railway officials, Vaishnav said the government's focus is now on making both rail operations and track workers' safety on par with standards in developed countries. "We don't want to settle there. We want to do even better work. We want to bring Indian Railways to the scale of developed countries," he said, crediting the entire railway workforce and the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi f...