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A antheral big elephant was recovered electrocuted successful reserved wood of Karadimadai bushed successful Madhukkarai scope of Coimbatore Forest Division connected Friday, prompting the Forest Department to verify with the Electricity Department if the HT Transformer pole, from which 1 of the lines that provided proviso to a backstage workplace had caused the death, had been installed arsenic per norms.
Inquiries indicated that the elephant aged astir 25 years had grabbed with its trunk a 22 kv line.
After inspecting the spot and ascertaining the origin of decease connected the ground of inputs provided by Forest Veterinary Officer N. Venkatesh Prabu, District Forest Officer and Field Director of Anamalai Tiger Reserve, checked with elder Electricity Department officials and advocated rectifications.
The Electricity Department officials are learnt to person explained that the rod connected which specified transformers are mounted are of 30 feet height, of which 5 feet should beryllium wrong the crushed and 25 feet supra the ground, and that the HT transformers are placed astatine a tallness of 10 feet from the crushed surface.
The incident, according to them, was unusual, since elephants usually bash not get adjacent to the HT transformer owed a continuous noise.
The Forest Department, it is learnt, had been calling upon the Electricity Department to rise the tallness of electrical wires hanging low.
