East Coast Railway to install Intrusion Detection System to prevent elephant deaths on railway tracks
The Hindu
In a bid to prevent elephants from being hit by speeding trains, East Coast Railway has decided to install an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to detect and deter wild elephants approaching railway tracks. The IDS will be installed in railway sections prone to elephant movements. As per direction by Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, the ECoR has obtained a sanction of ₹79.12 crore for installing IDS units near elephant corridors.
In a bid to prevent elephants from being hit by speeding trains, East Coast Railway has decided to install an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to detect and deter wild elephants approaching railway tracks.
The IDS will be installed in railway sections prone to elephant movements. As per direction by Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, the ECoR has obtained a sanction of ₹79.12 crore for installing IDS units near elephant corridors.
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Six railway sections consisting of 200-km stretches under Sambalpur and Khurda Road Railway Divisions has been identified to be taken up in the first phase. The sections include Maneswar-Bamur, Turekela-Lakhna, Arand-Arang Mahanadi, Norla-Therubali in Sambalpur Division and Kapilas Road-Rajathgarh-Angul, Rambha-Ganjam and Nayagarh-Porjanpur Railway Section under Khurda division.
According to the Railway Ministry, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) was the first railway zone to take up this project on an experimental basis in the Chalsa-Hasimara Railway Section of the Dooars area under Alipurduar Division and between Lanka-Hawaipur Railway Section under Lumding Division.
“After the success of the pilot project, the NFR has now installed an IDS in all its elephant corridors in Assam and North Bengal in order to prevent the death of wild elephants due to train-hits. The pilot project has already been immensely successful in saving elephants approaching railway tracks,” it said.
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