Where Travellers pay Toll Tax to Elephant

No trucker plying on the Haatgamria-Baraiburu road at Chaibasa in Jharkhand state of India can escape giving him toll tax.

He is not a toll agent but an Elephant that has got detached from its herd and stands for hours along the road waiting for food-laden trucks to give him its daily fill.

“We don’t mind giving it a bunch of fruits or rice or other eatables. This is his toll tax,” a trucker on the road says.

The tusker, fondly called Ramu Haathi, is not always friendly, though. When it cannot spot a food-laden truck the whole day, it raids road-side hotels. Read more..................................Travellers on this tribal track pay tusker toll

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