Coimbatore: After a video showing elephant elephant struggling to cross the walls built between coonor and hillgrove stations in Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) going viral on social media, head of warden wildlife Shekhar Kumar Niraj and the official division of Salem Railway conducted a shared inspection Coonor – Kallar on Saturday morning.
The train has destroyed the wall on Thursday.
Memoras Madras High Court looked for explanations from the train to block the movement of elephants and ordered the train and the forest department to conduct examinations with train officials conducting inspections from the coonor train station in the Nilgiris district to the Kallar train station in Mettupalayam on motorcycle trolleys.
“We found obstacles to stretches that affect free elephant movements.
The necessary actions will be taken to delete it.
We see toothed plastic waste on the track and suggest train officials to instruct commuters not to use plastic while traveling by train NMR.
We will take steps -The step to remove waste, “said Niraj.Niraj checked the Kallar elephant corridor near Mettupalayam on Saturday night.
“Mettupalayam -Coonor Road, which passes the Elephant Corridor of the Kallar, affects the movement of wild animals, including the elephant.
Firkyover 2.4km proposed by the wing of the National Highway Department of the State Highway will facilitate free wild elephant movements,” he added.