All unmanned railway crossings to shut by 2020: Railway board chairman

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Indian Railways will remove thousands of unmanned level crossings across the country within two years, its top official said on Thursday after 13 children were killed when their school van collided with a train at one such crossing in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar district.

“Our special focus has been on level crossings. In unmanned rail crossings, the responsibility is of road users. But because it happens on our premises, we are concerned about it. We are working actively to eliminate unmanned level crossings and will completely eliminate them by March 31, 2020,” railway board chairman Ashwani Lohani said.

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