Railways to add AI alerts and underpasses at Walayar to protect elephants on tracks
Indian Railways will fund AI-based surveillance and wildlife underpasses at Walayar to reduce elephant-train collisions.

Indian Railways plans to fund artificial intelligence surveillance and wildlife underpasses at Walayar to prevent collisions between elephants and trains. The move follows a trial in Tamil Nadu that was described as successful.
The new measures will add to fencing work already under way to safeguard animals that cross the tracks.