India, April 2 -- Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday said there has been a significant drop in the rate of cattle run-over incidents involving the Vande Bharat Express trains and the routes that have the newly designed fencing have practically seen zero such cases.

He was responding to a question raised by Samajwadi Party (SP) member of Parliament (MP) Awadhesh Prasad in the Lok Sabha, which also saw SP president Akhilesh Yadav taking a jab at the railway minister over the issue.

"As we have at-grade crossings in the country, cattle often end up on the railway tracks, which is a major problem. To address this issue, we have started fencing work using a new design," the minister said.

To date, the work of installing the newl...