The RDSO, the nodal agency involved in the development of fire-retardant features for coaches, claims to have frozen detailed upgraded specifications for fire-retardant curtain cloth, upholstery cloth, floor board, pre-laminated shaded sheets, foam, PVC floor and rexine.
“In the last three years, around 3,600 coaches manufactured here have had some kind of fire-retardant features or the other,” said Rail Coach Factory Kapurthala’s General Manager S K Suri. Clearly, the two coaches of the Samjhauta Express were not among them.