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| Elephants killed by train: Ramesh |
| Elephants killed by train: Ramesh upset with Railways
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| INDIA
, 24-September-2010
7:21:9 AM |
| Upset over the death of seven jumbos on train tracks in West Bengal, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today said he would soon meet the Railway Board to press for concrete steps to ensure safety of elephants.
"The tragedy is all the more poignant in the wake of the Environment Ministry's decision to declare the elephant as our national heritage animal, to take steps to establish a national Conservation Authority and to implement the recommendations of the Elephant Task Force to protect designated elephant corridors," he said.
The death of seven jumbos in Jalpaiguri district in the state is the worst such incident on a single rail track in the country. Incidentally, Jalpaiguri zone is designated as a jumbo corridor and calls for the railways to take special steps such as slowing down of trains to provide safe crossing to the elephants.
This is not the first time that such a mishap has taken place, although the scale with which it has taken place now is unprecedented particularly in the North-East frontier," the Union Minister said while expressing unhappiness at the railways poor track record in taking steps to ensure safe passage to the jumbos crossing the rail lines.
Expressing shock over the tragedy, Ramesh, who is in New York for the Major Economic Forum (MEF), said in a statement issued here that in the past he had written several times to Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee as well to Railway Board officials and discussed measures to be taken in order to avoid such tragedies.
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