India, June 17 -- The Central Railway (CR) is scrambling to enhance safety measures in the aftermath of the Mumbra train tragedy on June 9, when several commuters fell off two crowded, moving suburban local trains, taking four lives and injuring ten others.

The railway will spend Rs.2.40 crore on installing grab handles near the doors of its trains - to make travelling on the footboard less perilous. The commuters who died in the June 9 accident had positioned themselves on the footboards of the moving trains, which crossed each other at a bend in the tracks, likely dislodging one or more commuters.

The additional grab handles, which will anchor commuters on the footboards, will be fixed to horizontal rods attached to the ceiling of the...