New Delhi:  The Public Accounts Committee (PAC)  has selected 31 additional subjects, including CAG’s reports on fire accidents in passenger coaches of Indian Railways and lack of specialised parachutes with the army, for examination this year.

The key parliamentary committee decided to include these additional subjects for examination after the principal government auditor tabled its reports in Parliament during the Winter session.

A Lok Sabha bulletin issued last week said that corporate safety plan envisaged bringing down the number of accidents by 80 per cent from 2001-02 to 2013, but they went up by 160 per cent during the period. The loss of human lives in fire accidents in passenger coaches steeply increased from 3 in 2001-02 to 9 in 2011-12, 32 in 2012-13 and 35 in 2013-14.