Current context: Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR) got the best innovation award in Indian Railways for 2018-19 fiscal
a. A device to measure rainfall
b. Honey bee sound producing device
c. Climate condition detection device
d. A device used by Banks for payments
- The NFR earned the award for designing a device “Plan Bee”, to keep wild elephants away from railway tracks by imitating the buzz of a swarm of honey bees
- Plan Bee generates an amplified sound of honey bees and acts as an “elephant repellent” audible from 700-800 metres
- The elephants along the corridor move from the region as they hear the bees sound, and as a result, elephant deaths are avoided
- With 29 elephant corridors in the NFR, elephant deaths due to train accidents were common in the region
- NFR has now 46 plan bee devices installed at vulnerable points
Question:
Q.1 Plan Bee recently in the news is associated with which among the following?a. A device to measure rainfall
b. Honey bee sound producing device
c. Climate condition detection device
d. A device used by Banks for payments
