PLAN BEE

Background: 

• There are 29 earmarked elephant corridors with the operating zone of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) spread across the north-eastern states and parts of Bihar and West Bengal.
  
  
• But elephants have ventured into the path of trains even in non-corridor areas, often leading to accidents resulting in elephant deaths.
  
  
• In this background, Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) implemented the Plan Bee.
  
  

Plan Bee:

• Plan Bee is an amplifying system imitating the buzz of a swarm of honey bees to keep wild elephants away from railway tracks.
  
  
• Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) officials said that a mix of Plan Bee and other measures have helped them save 1,014 elephants from 2014 to June 2019.