Scouts guides camping against trespassing on railway track
| Date :19-Oct-2020 |
Scouts informing a villager about trespassing.
Staff Reporter :
Continuing wide-level of campaign to stop movement of cattle around the railway tracks, Bhopal railway has rope in Scouts & Guides. In this camp, Scouts & Guides interacted with the villagers and cattle owners around Gulabganj and Pabai stations.
They told the villagers to accompany their cattle while grazing and do not let them wander on railway tracks as it comes under trespassing. Concerned over the rising movement of cattle on railway track, camps are being placed in villages and slums around the railway track where people are being made aware of trespassing. They are being informed that after cattle move on tracks and lose their lives as well as put hindrance in train operation. It comes under Trespassing and complaint can be lodged against the grazers. Railway officials said that animals are important for us and they are significant part of our lives so they should not be died like this way.
People residing in the slums around the tracks were informed that as per Railway Regulation section 147, culprit can be imprisonment for six months and penalty of Rs 500 or 1000. Railway officials said that this comes under trespassing. Bhopal railway urged the shepherds and grazers to stop movement of their cattle from railway track. The campaign is being run a Bhopal-Bina, Bhopal-Itarsi, Itars-Harda, Bina-Guna and Guna-Shivpuri tracks.