Sri Lanka, Jan. 26 -- Steps will be taken to free the elephant corridors from the grip of encroachers and to establish a mechanism to make electrified fences extending to 600 kilometres in the Anuradhapura district function round the clock to keep elephants away from villages and farm lands.

This decision was taken at a meeting between the North Central Province Governor Wasantha Jinadasa and Anuradhapura District Secretary Ranjith Wimalasooriya.

The district farmer organisations maintain the majority of the electrified fences which have not been erected along the reservation boundaries. The growing encroachment of tank reservations is worsening the rapidly growing human-elephant conflict.

Anuradhapura District Assistant Director of Wi...