Elephants were falling victim to a fatal accident due to a high speed train, the forest department did such a thing
No matter how desolate the forest is, it becomes a compulsion to pass the railway track through there. To connect one city to another, this difficult work has to be done, but the people whose movement is facilitated by this railway track, it becomes heavy on the residents of the forest. Often, dead bodies of wild animals are seen on these tracks, who, unaware of the dangers moving towards them at high speed, fall prey to them. Especially elephants, who move from one place to another in the forest with their entire clan. There is a railway track in the middle and if a high speed train comes at the time of their passing, then an accident happens. To prevent these accidents, the Forest Department has tried a new trick.
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The railway track passing through the reserve forest in Madukkarai in Coimbatore has seen several tragic elephant deaths due to collisions on the track. Forest Department is building an AI enabled surveillance mechanism and Railways is almost finishing construction of an… pic.twitter.com/dUcyX4iY6v
— Supriya Sahu IAS (@supriyasahuias) June 16, 2023
underpass under the track
IAS Supriya Sahu has shared this video of underpass on Twitter. In this video you can see that the train is passing on the track and a very wide path has been made under it. This arrangement has been made so that instead of choosing the path above the track, the family of elephants can get out safely from under the bridge. Neither the passenger present in the train should face any problem nor should the life of elephants become difficult. According to the caption given in the Twitter handle, this video is from the forests of Madukkarai in Tamil Nadu, where earlier it was common for elephants to become victims of accidents.
AI will also be helpful
According to the post of IAS Supriya Sahu, a surveillance system working on artificial intelligence will also be installed here, so that the movement of elephants can be monitored. He himself has praised this initiative. Users viewing this post are also praising the efforts of the Forest Department of Tamil Nadu. Till the time of writing the news, the post has received 92.3K views.