Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
ALARMED by the growing incidents of smuggling of birds and wild animals in the garb of transport of chicken consignment in trains, Director General of Railway Protection Force Service (DG RPFS) has directed all units to physically check every consignment and detect false declarations.
DG RPFS Arun Kumar laid down new guidelines for the force to prevent illegal transportation of wildlife in the national transporter. “Vulnerable trains for illegal carriage of wildlife should be identified and all out efforts should be made with intensive and sustained action,” stated DGP Kumar.
“Railway has been used for illegal transportation of wildlife. RPFS made several recoveries of such wildlife and handed them over to concerned agencies,” he stated in his recently issued circular to all RPFS units across the country.
In his guidelines, Arun Kumar stated that no consignment of birds or any wild animals including rabbit should be accepted unless the consigner and consignee furnish a joint statement duly signed by them and containing an elaborate and accurate description of each birds and animals.
Besides other necessary documents required, no consignment of birds or any wild animals including rabbits should be accepted unless a certificate issued from the authorised officers including Chief Wildlife Wardens or district Animal Husbandry Officer, or as per designated officer/office of the concern state.
The consignor of such birds and wild animals including rabbits will present all the relevant documents to Assistant Commercial Manager (ACM) of the concerned division for scrutiny/authorisation.
He further added that non-consignment of birds or any wild animals including rabbits will be accepted for booking by any Parcel Officer or Goods Shed unless clear authorisation is received from the ACM of concerned division.
Each case of such booking authorised by ACM will be serially documented and records in respect thereof maintained by the office of ACM as also the Chief Parcel Clerk/Chief Goods Clerk of the Parcel Office/Goods Shed. The DG RPF also asked that the mandatory conditions for receiving, forwarding, carrying or delivering for carriage of birds and animals should be paste and published at all Railway Stations and other places.
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