"Of the total 600 passengers in the train, the 200 passengers in the affected coaches have been safely shifted to other coaches, and the train has resumed its journey. The restoration work will be finished promptly," Sharma said.
He further stated that the incident site is approximately 126 km from Guwahati and is not a designated elephant corridor, adding that the loco pilot, on observing the herd of elephants, applied emergency brakes. However, elephants dashed into the train.
Technological improvements in Indian Railways (IR) are a continuous process. There are several Artificial Intelligence-based predictive maintenance applications, the Ministry of Railways said in a press release.
Northeast Frontier Railway (NF Railway) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with RailTel Corporation of India Ltd, for the installation of an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to avert train-elephant collision and disaster mitigation measures.