Flyovers for Elephants???

The Centre’s suggestion to construct underpasses and flyovers for safe passage of elephants to reduce deaths on railway tracks evoked the Supreme Court’s derisive comment - why not put up a road sign to inform the pachyderms to use these as safe paths?

Authorities are about to build the world’s first “flyover” routes for elephants to save them from accidents on roads and railways.

The jumbo trunk roads will be built to stop accidents on roads and railway lines that cross Rajaji national park in Uttarakhand near the Himalayan foothills.

Two flyovers, each 1.2km long and 100 metres wide, will be covered in foliage to resemble the natural environment and encourage the animals to use them. At least 118 Asian elephants, an endangered species, have died on rail lines in India since 1987.