Natarajan Chairs Meet on Elephant deaths Due To Collision With Trains

Jayanthi Natarajan, MoS for Environment and Forests, chaired an urgent meeting of a Coordination Committee of officials from the Railway Ministry and the Ministry of Environment and Forests on the issue of deaths of elephants due to collision with trains in Odisha and West Bengal. Natarajan said the Odisha incident was particularly tragic and violent, as it involved the death of five elephants including a pregnant female. She also emphasised the urgent imperative to prevent such terrible accidents from happening in the future. The Minister stressed that such accidents not only pose a grave danger to passengers, but are also to wildlife.