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Abohar Municipal Corporation has taken cognizance of scavengers who don’t cover their vehicles while carrying the carcasses of animals while passing through the populated town area. The MC had received complaints that people suffer a lot due to this unethical practice. In view of this problem, Mayor Vimal Thatai today warned that such carriers will be fined Rs 20,000 for each violation.
The mayor directed that vehicle carrying carcasses should not be allowed to pass through the main roads or residential areas in the town on their way to the animal carcass dumping ground. Such vehicles will have to be run through the city bypass, he told the concerned officials. Besides imposing a fine of Rs 20,000 on the owners, such vehicles should also be impounded.
(SUBHEAD)Thatai said that at present a serious disease was spreading among the animals, especially in the destitute animals. The disease was rapidly taking animals in its grip, but the insensitive AAP-led state government had not taken a serious view. This is the reason that till now no advisory has been issued by the government. It was unbecoming of the government that claimed to be farmers-friendly.
He said that the price of medicines needed to cure affected animals has increased considerably. The insensitivity of the government may prove to be an alarm bell in the future. The medicines used in its treatment are very expensive. Therefore, the government should immediately subsidize the medicines and take strict action to stop its black marketing. He said that he has received complaints that some people in Prem Nagar even park vehicles laden with dead animals in the locality, due to which a lot of bad smell spreads around. The state govt must rise to the occasion as the disease may quickly engulf hundreds of stray animals which were roaming freely.
