Guwahati, March 03: Environmental activists today blocked railway tracks in the Kamakhya-Jogighopa section here demanding removal of tracks from elephant corridors near World Heritage wetland site of Deepor Beel.
This resulted in the delay in movement of trains including the Guwahati-Gandhidham Express for over two hours.
An adult female elephant was run over by a goods train near the Deepor Beel when she had come down the hill along with a herd to drink water on Sunday while another was hit by a train in the same area last year.
The Assam unit of People for Animals also submitted a memorandum to North Eastern Frontier Railway demanding removal of the tracks as speeding trains run over elephants.
“The construction of the Kamakhya-Jogighopa section through the wetland was done without giving due consideration to the wildlife which are regularly mowed down by speeding trains,” PFA chairperson Sangeeta Goswami told reporters.
–Agencies