Skip to content Skip to navigation

An humble appeal to animal lovers of the world

The tragic death of another mother wild elephants in Udalguri district has revealed the failure of forest and civil administration to control unabated killing of wild elephants in Udalguri district.A 7 feet tall and 18 years old mother wild elephant was electrocuted again at the same village on September 28 at 11 pm.It has been suspected that irate villagers could have electrocuted the mother wild elephant in protest against the arrest of the two villagers two days back accused in the charge killing the young tusker on September 25. More than a thousand villagers assembled at the place at 11 am next day on September 29 to stage demonstration in front of D.N.Hazarika, Circle Officer, Harisinga Revenue Circle; Bankim Sarma, DFO, Dhansiri Division ;Dr.K.Chamua, VAS,Tangla and OC Paneri police station demanding immediate release of the arrested persons and govt. relief to the victims. They alleged that paddy field of around 30 to 40 bighas had been damaged the previous night by a herd of 50 strong wild elephants. Police and SSB jawans had to be deployed at the site to control the irate mob. It was really too sad to watch milk oozing out from the udder of the dead mother elephant, sufficient to indicate that the killed mother had a very young calf.


Animal lovers of the state including WWF have condemned the killings of the elephants and requested people to maintain peace. They urged the Chief Minister of Assam and local minister Rihan Daimari immediately to take steps to check both the killings and corruptions of the forest officials resulting loss of huge number of wild elephants in the state.Animal lovers all over the world must come forward to rescue the helpless wild elephants in Assam, India.

Comments

Gauranga's picture

What is wrong? Are the people out of their minds? They reside and refuge in elephants territory and do all this. Shameful! It is very stupid of god to have given us superior brains just to terrorise other living beings! And she was pregnant! Curse them! The culprits should be treated just as terrorists and murderers! So disheartening! :'(
Rituparna Goswami Pande's picture

Its heart rending to see the plight of animals in our country. Animals are persecuted as if they don't need to live. We need to be compassionate towards them but sadly our people do not realise and will never realise this.
Jyotirmoy's picture

In Assam ( and India in general )people lives' hardly matter. I do not know how much importance the Govt pays for wildlife protection, which must be of a very low priority. It is sad to read and hear about how people are killing the animals - rhinos, leopards, elephants.

Pages

Add new comment

Random Stories

Delayed construction of Kalanadi bridge at Bamunjuli resented

25 Jul 2011 - 12:37am | Jayanta Kumar Das
The delay in the construction of an RCC bridge over Kalanodi at Bamunjuli in Bhergaon Sub-division of Udalguri district been a serious concern of several villages namely- Kalikhola, Bamunjuli,...

Khagen Mahanta admitted to Down Town Hospital

27 Aug 2007 - 3:38am | editor
Guwahati: Assam’s veteran artist Khagen Mahanta has been ailing in the city based Down Town Hospital. According to information, the musician was admitted to the hospital two days back. His...

KPLT denies abduction involvement; duo traceless

5 Mar 2012 - 5:08pm | Syed Miraz Ahmed
Combing operations put into service jointly by the police, army and paramilitary forces have invariably failed to pinpoint the whereabouts of the abducted forest officials who on Saturday were...

Adivasis block rail for ST status

22 Feb 2016 - 3:38pm | Hantigiri Narzary
Train services along the Northeastern Frontier Railway(NFR) via Fakiragram junction of Lower Assam’s Kokrajhar district was disrupted today for nearly four hours including Rajdhani Express train...

Other Contents by Author

 The carcass of a twelve years old wild elephant (Makhna)found this morning on the bed of Samrang river near India-Bhutan international border.It has caused concern among nature loving people of the district.Eye witnesses said the elephant could have been poisoned somewhere else the previous night.Frequent deaths of wild elephants have now been a serious concern in the district.Udalguri District Journalists Union and Green Society,Udalguri expressed concern at the incident and request forest department to take appropriate action.
 Situated in a critically backward area near Bhutan border,people of Dimakuchi had been suffering much due to iliteracy, financial backwardness and transport bottlenecks.A meeting was recently held at Dimakuchi college on June 26 against drug abuse and illicit traficking on the occasion “International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking”.The programme was organized by Bhergaon Civil administration in association with local NGO Ferangadaw.J Basumatari,principal,Dimakuchi college presided over the meeting.Udayaditya Gogoi,SDO(C),Bhergaon sub-division inaugurated the meeting.On the occasion he spoke on the effects of drug abuse and illicit trafficking on common people....
People living in and around Majorchuba village near Kalaigaon town have decided to work hard against drug abuse,illegal trafficking of girls and woman and spreading rumours like 'Child Lifting',(Xopadhara).The villagers also decided to work with the civil and police administration in the matter of checking drug abuse,illegal trafficking and child lifting.The awareness meeting was arranged at Majorchuba Binapani LP School at 1 pm by several gaonburas of the locality supported by Kalaigaon Revenue Circle Office.The meeting was presided over by DN Hazarika, SDO(S), Udalguri also in charge of Kalaigaon Revenue Circle following the incidents which had occurred...
One Lawa Majhi (45) was killed by a loner wild elephant at Bormukali near Nonai forest range office in Udalguri district last night at 8 pm.The person was coming home from market while came on the way of two loners.So far 84 people have been killed by wild elephants during last five years in the district against the deaths of 34 wild elephants. Seven people have been killed by wild elephants in the district during the current year.DFO, Dhansiri forest Division,Udalguri has sought appointment with Forest Minister Pramila Rani Brahma regarding severe man-elephant conflict in the district and non payment of ex-gratia to victims for last two years.  
In another tragic incident, two Adivasi workers were tortured to death at Bhutiachang tea garden in Udalguri district last night on June 15.According to information Sona Pator (30) father of three children and Kanhaiya Bhukta (35) father of four were picked up by a group last night alleging that both of them had been involved in stealing money from Suresh Tanti, MCLA, BTC a few days back. Taking both to a house, members of the group started beating them brutally whole night till their death in the morning of June 16.The group members threw away body of Sona Pator in front of his house at Bhutiachang TE old line while the body of Kanhaiya was thrown in the Bhutiachang market.According to...
Management of Nonaipara tea garden under Goodricke Group situated near India-Bhutan border in Udalguri district has launched a new programme of attracting students and children to plant more and more trees in an effort to check climate change and restoration of forests for wild animals and birds.The plantation and conservation programme was officially launched on June 10 in Nonaipara tea garden at 11 am.NM D'Souza,senior Asstt. Manager, Nonaipara TE and senior environmental journalist JK Das launched the programme by planting a sapling each followed by hundreds of school children and teachers in presence of several ladies and journalists.Office bearers of 'ADWR',a social NGO...
 Jagadish Sarkar,EM,BTC and Maheswar Boro,newly elected BPF MLA of Kalaigaon assembly constituency had an interactive session with 32 numbers of government gaonburas working under Kalaigaon Revenue Circle at Kalaigaon on June 9 at 11 am.The programme was organized by Kalaigaon branch of Assam Gaonburas Association.The programme was presided over by senior Gaonbura Karun Chandra Deka.Basundhar Rabha,secretary,Kalaigaon Gaonbura Association welcomed all the distinguished guests who had attended the ceremony to share views with them.On the occasion the Gaonbura Association felicitated Maheswar Boro,newly elected MLA of Kalaigaon;Jagadish Sarkar,EM,BTC with gamosa,xorai and citation...
On the occasion of World Environment Day on June 5,Kaziranga Wildlife Society, Wildlife Welfare Trust and Northeast Area Development Forum for Regional Development jointly organized a day long interactive and poster campaign session at Burapahar in association with Assam police and Forest Department.The celebration had started at Amguri Bagan near Jakhalabandha at 11 am.Mubina Akhtar,secretary Kaziranga Wildlife Society and CR Bhobora,former conservator of Forest had attractive interaction session with children and villagers.Colour posters of rhino and wild elephants with important messages were distributed among villagers and forest personnels.Eight villagers were felicitated with gamocha...
The Udalguri district administration formally feted three rank holders of the district in the recently announced HSLC and HS (Arts) examination at an official ceremony held at sub-divisional HQ at Bhergaon on June 5. The felicitation ceremony was held at the conference hall of the sub-divisional office, Bhergaon. Sadhana Hojai, D.C, Udalguri presided over the felicitation ceremony which was anchored by Udayaditya Gogoi, SDO(C), Bhergaon. The three rank holders namely-Subham Pator of Arunodoi Academy, Tangla (14th rank) and Mohan Pradhan of Diamond English School, Harisinga (20th rank) in the HSLC examination; Mousumi Baruah of National Pioneer Junior College, Tangla (8th rank) in the HS (...
In an effort to check climate change and restoration of forests for wild animals and birds near India-Bhutan border area,Goodricke Group has taken up massive plantation programme of creating a man made forest in an area of 13.17 HEC near Orangajuli and Nonaipara tea gardens in Udalguri district.AN Singh,Managing Director, Goodricke Group (Kolkata) attended the ceremony as the chief guest on June 1 at 1 pm.He formally inaugurated the plantation programme by planting a sapling at the site.Speaking to attending children and students he requested all to take special care of a tree sapling by each as own brother or sister.Assuring children and people he said that Goodricke would do best to...