Jobless Assam jumbos up for sale
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04/12/1999
Some sell jobs. Mitharam Sonowal sells those who need jobs. It other words, he sells the "unemployed" to those who have jobs. Yes, Sonowal's business is big. As big as the elephants he deals with. Following the Supreme Court ban, which prohibited felling and movement of timber in the Northeast, Sonowal hit on this novel idea about how to sell elephants which found themselves jobless since then. The court ban may come as a boon for environmentalists but hundreds of elephants involved with the timber industry have been left without a job.