7 months ago
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Stray cattle roaming on the metropolis stretches of nationalist highways successful Tiruchi person go a large information interest for motorists and pedestrians alike.
Several commuters person raised repeated complaints that cattle often rotation onto engaged carriageways, particularly successful the evening and astatine night, causing near-miss accidents and postulation congestion.
The occupation is reportedly terrible on the Tiruchi-Madurai National Highway adjacent K.K. Nagar, Edamalaipattipudur, and Crawford; the Tiruchi-Dindigul National Highway adjacent Pirattiyur; the Tiruchi-Chennai National Highway adjacent Mannarpuram and Senthaneerpuram; and connected the Tiruchi-Thanjavur and Tiruchi-Pudukottai National Highway stretches wrong the metropolis limits.
“Motorists are forced to swerve abruptly to debar hitting the animals, particularly connected poorly lit stretches. It’s highly unsafe arsenic the cattle often prevarication successful the mediate of the roadworthy astatine night, making them hard to spot,” said H. Venugopal, a commuter.
Despite the Tiruchi Corporation’s efforts to curb the menace by impounding stray cattle and penalising their owners, the occupation persists connected highways passing done the city.
Officials constituent retired that respective road stretches tally adjacent to peripheral areas, wherever cattle owners let their animals to graze connected the vegetation connected medians. The caller rainfall has resulted successful abundant writer and weed growth, further attracting cattle to these roads.
According to sources, the civic assemblage has seized astir 1,284 caput of cattle and collected ₹30.88 lakh successful penalties from owners betwixt November 2022 and September 2025. Additionally, ₹5.16 lakh has been collected done the auctioning of 68 impounded cattle during the aforesaid period. In September, astir 75 stray cattle obstructing vehicular question were impounded, and fines amounting to ₹1.87 lakh were collected from their owners.
A elder authoritative said the Corporation would place susceptible stretches and intensify the thrust to curb the menace.
