The Latest Breaking News from FRA

Tiruvannamalai Dist. Collector issues forest title rights to 1,569 tribal people & other traditional forest dwellers in Jawadhu Hills. 49,400 hectares of forestland covered; beneficiaries can collect minor forest produce. 568 applications initially rejected, now approved. FRA law monitored by committees headed by Chief Sec., Collectors & RDO's.

Passenger railroads nationwide will now be required to install video recorders inside their locomotives

Federal inspectors found an alarming number of defects in the locomotives and railcars Union Pacific was using at the world's largest railyard in western Nebraska this summer, and the railroad was reluctant to fix the problems

The Mizoram Assembly has passed a resolution opposing the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act, 2023. Aside from special Constitutional protections in Mizoram and Nagaland, the Act is applicable in the rest of India’s Northeast. In 1996, the Supreme Court expanded the term ‘forest land’, such that the Forest Rights Act also…

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The nation's largest railroad union wants federal regulators to do more to ensure conductors are properly trained in the wake of two recent trainee deaths in Maryland

Lawyers and unions representing rail workers say there is a clear pattern across the industry of railroads retaliating against workers who report safety violations or injuries on the job

The NTSB is renewing its calls for major freight railroads to equip every locomotive with automated track inspection devices that it believes could have prevented a 2021 train derailment that killed three people in Montana

Minister Khandre vows to protect tribals' rights under FRA; to hold State-level meeting to resolve confusion over revenue & forest land boundaries; to consider settlement of land rights claims of those tilling encroached govt/forest land before 1980; to install rail track barricade in areas with high human-elephant conflict; to protect…

The union that represents locomotive engineers says a coal train derailment in Virginia is renewing questions about Norfolk Southern's safety practices

Norfolk Southern’s CEO has spoken often of safety and better service since he took the job over a year ago, but it’s safety that has dominated discussions after one of his trains derailed and caught fire in February in Ohio