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Earlier, the HC had directed the authorities to tackle the contented of stray cattle connected priority.
Around 2 years aft it took implicit operations and attraction of cattle lb of Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) successful a first-of-its benignant experimentation successful the state, Jeevdaya Ghar Panjrapole (JGP), a non-government organisation (NGO), connected Friday requested the civic assemblage to relieve it from work starting adjacent week. The petition comes successful the backdrop of accusations by the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) that an unusually precocious fig of cattle were dying successful the lb owed to alleged negligence of the JGP.
The president of lasting committee of RMC said the civic assemblage volition judge the NGO’s request. JGP, the Rajkot-based NGO moving for jeevadaya (compassion toward each surviving forms) and payment of animals, wrote a ceremonial missive to Rajkot municipal commissioner Devang Desai and requested the civic assemblage to relieve it from the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) duties of the cattle lb from October 6. In the letter, JGP underlined that during the 2 years that it managed the cattle pound, it spent astir Rs 2 crore from its ain funds to tally the operations. “However, we are pained by a malicious run by definite radical and baseless and slanderous reports by definite media houses, and we volition voluntarily springiness up the absorption of cattle lb from October 6,” JGP said successful the letter.
Earlier, the Gujarat High Court had directed the authorities to tackle the contented of stray cattle connected precedence basis. JGP had travel guardant to assistance the RMC negociate and support the cattle lb for which it had signed an MoU with the civic assemblage connected October 4, 2022. The MoU was valid for 5 years. The civic assemblage was providing regular grants amounting to Rs 35 for each calf and Rs 50 for each big cattle oregon buffalo arsenic regular attraction assistance to JGP portion the NGO was liable for arranging fodder, manpower etc.
The Congress and the AAP submitted abstracted memorandums recently, stating that a precocious fig of animals were dying successful the cattle pound. Jaimin Thakar, president of the lasting committee of RMC, said:“Jeevdaya Ghar is simply a respected NGO. But determination were complaints astir the mode successful which it was managing the RMC cattle pound. Now that it has requested to springiness up the absorption voluntarily, we volition judge it and negociate the cattle lb connected our ain by recruiting veterinarians and caretakers.”
Bhavesh Jakasaniya, veterinary serviceman of RMC, said that implicit 700 cattle died during the 3 months of monsoon opening June 12. “However, that is simply a mean mean fig for monsoon months successful immoderate twelvemonth erstwhile the cattle lb has an mean 1,200 cattle heads since radical wantonness their anemic and unproductive cattle, which extremity up here. Mortality complaint remains precocious among specified cattle during monsoons owed to atrocious weather,” Jakasaniya said. He said determination were 1,200 cattle heads successful the pound, adding the RMC impounds an mean of 20 stray cattle from metropolis roads each day.
Jakasaniya said that RMC was paying an mean Rs 15 lakh to JGP towards cattle-maintenance grant. But Rajendra Shah, trustee of JGP, said that it was not enough. “Every month, we utilized to walk astir Rs 7 lakh from the money of our organisation to guarantee that the cattle were fed properly. However, immoderate (people with) vested interests ran a malicious run against us. Therefore, we person requested the RMC to relieve america from the work of managing the cattle pound,” Shah said.
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