The forest department of Odisha has installed hanging solar fences along railway tracks as an experiment in a bid to prevent elephants from being mowed down by trains.
The solar fence will not harm animals but stop them from moving further ahead and force them to retreat.
The forest department has used this technique in the Keonjhar district. It has installed hanging solar fences for 800 metres along the railway tracks at Joda, the mineral hub of the district. It was inaugurated on Saturday.
