Roads of Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai unsafe as stray cattle return to roads

Stray cattle menace, which rears its caput during the rainy and wintertime seasons, starring to fatal accidents, has returned to the streets of Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai.

Since the ungraded is bedewed oregon astatine slightest moist during the 2 seasons, home cattle that are not taken attraction of by dairy farmers roam connected the streets and settee down connected the damp aboveground successful the nighttime successful herds. The animals go ‘mobile speed-breakers’, causing accidents successful the nighttime arsenic motorcycle riders are incapable to trim the velocity of their two-wheelers aft catching show of the animals astatine adjacent quarters.

Since the animals are not taken for grazing during the time also, the cows and bulls roam connected adjacent engaged roads to origin accidents and besides onslaught passers-by.

“Feeding and taking attraction of the ‘dry cows’, which bash not springiness beverage bash not make immoderate gross for the owners, go an costly affair. They bash not support the animals successful their cowsheds. So, the animals rotation on the roads to origin accidents. Since the Corporation, which has the bounden work of controlling this menace, is yet to instrumentality immoderate action, radical are looking up to the municipality civic assemblage to enactment an extremity to this problem,” says N. Thangamariappan of Palayamkottai, who suffered a fracture successful a motorcycle mishap caused by stray cattle successful 2018.

In different incident, an adjunct technologist of the Public Works Department was going to Vaeinthaankulam caller autobus basal connected his motorcycle a fewer years agone from his bureau adjacent the District Collector’s Bungalow, erstwhile a stray cattle herd abruptly started moving helter skelter and deed his two-wheeler. He suffered caput wounded and was admitted successful a backstage infirmary successful Kulavanigarpuram, wherever helium died aft being successful coma for 3 days.

“We mislaid a knowledgeable technologist to this unfortunate fatal accident,” recalls a elder technologist of PWD, who was his colleague.

When the Corporation impounded the stray cattle and slapped good connected owners for releasing the confiscated home animals, it triggered a large hue and cry. A conception of BJP functionaries went connected to adhd a spiritual space to the issue, saying the impounded animals were not fed properly. And their protestation and forcible freeing of the detained animals led to registration of a lawsuit and apprehension of immoderate of them.

“We bash not person manpower for impounding the stray cattle, which is simply a life-threatening exercise,” said a elder Corporation official.

However, Corporation Commissioner Monika Rana said she would look into the superior contented immediately.