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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Cattle dying on tracks: Numbers double in one year -Avishek G Dastidar

Cattle dying on tracks: Numbers double in one year -Avishek G Dastidar

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published Published on Aug 27, 2018   modified Modified on Aug 27, 2018
-The Indian Express

How do cows die in India? Strange as it may sound, but it seems more and more are dying after coming under speeding trains across the country.

New Delhi:
How do cows die in India?

Strange as it may sound, but it seems more and more are dying after coming under speeding trains across the country, especially in the Hindi heartland of North India, a fact that has prompted the Railway Ministry to sit up and take note.

The Uttar Pradesh-based North Central Railway alone has seen 1,300 cases of cattle being run over since April this year. This is a sharp 271 per cent jump from 349 cattle deaths during this period last year.

From just about 2,183 cases across the Indian Railways in 2015-16, the number had jumped to over 10,105 in the financial year ending March 2018, signifying a 362 per cent rise. This year, since April, 6,900 cattle have died after being hit by running trains, a 112 per cent jump from the same period last fiscal.

A majority of the cases are happening in North Central Railway, Delhi-based Northern Railway and Madhya Pradesh-based West Central Railway — each accounting for around 18 per cent of all cattle deaths on tracks.

Every case of a cattle — including cow and its progeny — getting run over delays trains, often even damages engines, depending on the speed at which the locomotive hits it. “It is a social problem. Our tracks are not fenced and run through open fields in the country. Often cattle come on the tracks and get run over. Cattle owners are aware of this,” Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani told The Sunday Express.

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The Indian Express, 26 August, 2018, https://indianexpress.com/article/india/cattle-dying-on-tracks-numbers-double-in-one-year-5325031/


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