Coimbatore: A joint meeting of Railways and Forest Department officials to be convened soon will discuss the ways and means to prevent deaths of elephant on railway track on being hit by speeding trains, officials said.

This was decided after an inspection carried out by a team of officials led by Chief Wild Life Warden of Tamil Nadu V K Melkani on a 25 km stretch between Palakkad in Kerala and nearby Podanur in Tamil Nadu where such accidents occured in the last one decade.