According to Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, the roll-out of the Kavach protection system brought accident numbers down from 135 to which figure?

The correct answer is 16. While speaking at the flag-off, the Union Minister said that spending on railway infrastructure had produced both expansion and better safety, and that the number of accidents had dropped from one hundred and thirty-five to sixteen after the Kavach train protection system was introduced, with the stated institutional goal of bringing accidents down to zero. Option B is wrong because no such figure was given for accidents. Option C is wrong because that number belongs to a different statement altogether, the roughly fifty-two thousand crore rupees of railway infrastructure work said to be under way in Karnataka. Option D is wrong because seventy-three refers to the minutes that a Bengaluru to Chennai journey is expected to take once high speed connectivity is in place, and not to safety data. Candidates should keep the three numbers apart, since all of them were quoted at the same event.