The Citizens' Welfare Forum, Jorhat, has expressed serious concern over the depredations wreaked by herds of wild elephants in Jorhat and Majuli subdivisions. In a strongly-worded statement, office-bearers of the body have asked Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain to visit the jumbo-ravaged areas of Majuli to assess the losses suffered by poor sections of people residing on saporis. If an outcry is raised against the killing of rhinos in Kaziranga National Park, adequate attention should be paid to the rampage caused by wild elephants, too, the forum members reasoned. The marauding herd has been creating havoc on vast areas in the district since the last several years and in the latest instance it has caused extensive damage in Majuli during the last one-and-a-half months, the Citizens' Welfare Forum pointed out. The Government should rebuild the houses pulled down by jumbos in the district, the forum demanded. It also asked for the payment of a sum of Rs 3 lakh to the next of kin of each of the victim of jumbo attacks. The forum alleged that the Forest Division did not take timely steps and drove the jumbo herd towards KNP at the last month. However, a tusker and a few other jumbos have been left behind which are now on rampage, it added. The Citizens' Welfare Forum threatened to launch a democratic agitation if the Government fails to protect the lives and property of the people in the saporis. As there are no forest areas along the Brahmaputra river in Majuli, the elephants are moving from one place to another in search of food, the forum members said.