Maligaon, August 10: In two unfortunate incidents that occurred today, two elephants collided with freight carrying trains in two separate locations, one between Chalsa – Nagrakata section and the second one is between Digaru – Panbari section.
The first incident happened in between Chalsa – Nagrakata section (KM 68/3-2) in the Dooars area of the Alipurduar division on NFR at about 02-40 am today. The second incident happened at 07-10 am in the Digaru – Panbari section (Km 41/1-2) under Lumding division of NFR.
Railways have taken a serious note of these incidents and have alerted all the elephant corridors within NFR area. However these two sections were beyond the notified elephant corridors.
These sections were also not covered by the Intrusion Detection system. However due to the success of this system, Ministry of Railways has sanctioned Rs. 77 crs for covering most of the elephant corridors within NFR. Railway is committed and is always ready to take measures towards protection of wild elephants.
