GUWAHATI: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has prepared a proposal for construction of two tunnels on the southern stretch of railway track running through the Deepor Beel area.
After a detailed survey of the Deepor Beel area to check the feasibility of constructing a railway tunnel between Gates No.273 and 274 on the south bank rail track running through the water body NRF prepared a proposal, along with a working drawing for permanent mitigation of the problem and submitted it to the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and Chief Wildlife Warden of the State and all the concerned departments.
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As per the project, two tunnels, having a length of 570 metres each for accommodating the rail tracks – the existing one and the under-construction double line – with a provision of elephant corridor over these tunnels.
However, in order to make a path for elephant movement across the proposed tunnels, earthwork will be done from the hillside and will be sloped towards the Deepor Beel.