Officials at UP’s Kanpur railway station resort to langur posters to drive away monkeys

The officials at the Kanpur Central Railway Station have put up posters and placed giant cut-outs of langurs at major sites to scare monkeys away.

Public relation officer NCR, Amit Kumar Singh, said that the poster and cut-out experiment, if successful, will be implemented across other railway stations of the North Central Railway (NCR) division.

Monkeys have been a major cause of concern because of several attacks in the recent past. Some of them have proved fatal as well.

“We have implemented it at Kanpur Central on an experimental basis,” he said and added, “Along with this, speakers have also been installed near the posters and cut-outs so that the sounds of langurs can also be heard. It has been done to scare the monkeys.