Killer Railways: No regret from railway minister or officials.

Indian Railways is perhaps one of the bigger wildlife killing machines. Despite lot of pleas over the years, the railways haven't created any alternate alignments to skirt our protected areas. Neither the trains maintain the required lower speed limits while passing through the forest areas.

According to the rules, if any animal is killed by a vehicle then the vehicle is immediately impounded. However, the wildlife officials are too scared to implement this rule and impound a train. I think the time has come to do that, so the Indian Railways wakes up to the reality.

Since that is not going to happen, may be we need to go to the courts. Today the Hon'ble Supreme Court is our only saviour.