<span style="color: #222222;">Railway minister Piyush Goel announced that the Honey Bee plan in Assam that kept elephants away from the tracks will be expanded to other areas of the country. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Talking to AIR on the sideline of a function in Guwahati, Mr Goel said that the initiative was started on experiment basis last year.  </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He said that the system was reasonably successful and we will like to expand it to other areas. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR Correspondent reports that the Divisional Railway Manager of Rangia Ravilesh Kumar started the project initially to avoid the death of animals particularly elephants on railway tracks. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Kumar said that it  is a simple device that amplifies the recorded sound of honey bees to keep elephants away from the rail track. Several mishaps had been avoided by using this method. </span><br />''