The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), through its Project Elephant Division, organised a two-day national workshop on 'Policy Implementation for Minimising Elephant Mortalities on Railway Tracks' at the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in Dehradun on March, 10-11 2026.

An official statement said that at the event, around 40 participants, including senior officials from MoEFCC, the Ministry of Railways, forest departments of elephant-range states and conservation scientists. Representatives from several major railway zones also took part, including the East Central Railway, East Coast Railway, North Eastern Railway, North East Frontier Railway, Northern Railway, South Eastern Railway, Southern Railway and South Western Railway.