On Monday, India’s oldest surviving captive elephant dies at 89 years in a sprawling tea estate in Assam.
About the aged elephant, earlier forest department reported that he was rescued from the wild in the 1940s, and extensively used in tea garden work, when Britishers owned the Borgang tea estate in Assam’s Sonitpur district.
The elephant was named Bijuli Prasad and was in service from the 1950s till 2018.
The elephant to Williamson Magor & Co. Limited (Tea Company) in the 1950s since then the family used to come frequently to Assam from UK to take stock of Bijuli.
The tea estate officials have informed that, Bijuli’s death was sudden by was peaceful for the innocent soul.
