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The State authorities has issued a broad Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to beryllium followed for the behaviour of ‘jallikattu’ successful 2026.
The accepted lawsuit involving bulls is conducted from January during the Pongal festivities and goes connected till May each year. The SOP is to beryllium followed by the territory administration, officials of assorted authorities departments, organisers and the participants.
The duties and responsibilities of the territory administration, the Directorate of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services, revenue, carnal husbandry, health, nationalist works, constabulary and occurrence and rescue services departments too those of the organising committees, bull owners and participants person been intelligibly spelt retired successful the SOP communicated to each District Collectors.
Video signaling and documentation of the events, anterior arrangements, instauration of consciousness among stakeholders connected the request to comply with the rules and a elaborate compliance study aft the completion of each lawsuit person besides been specified successful the SOP.
One of the responsibilities of the Directorate of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services is to contented indispensable guidelines and instructions and hole a exemplary layout for the harmless behaviour of jallikattu and processing applications received from the Collectors requesting notification for the events.
The territory administration, nether the chairmanship of the Collector, should signifier a committee comprising officials of assorted departments to oversee, show and guarantee that the events are conducted successful conformity with the prescribed rules. The Collector shall explicate the rules and regulations and administer copies of the SOP.
On nary relationship is jallikattu to beryllium permitted successful places different than the ones notified by the government. Any deviation would beryllium treated arsenic amerciable and terrible transgression enactment taken against individuals liable for specified illegalities.
The lawsuit organisers should get anterior support from the authorities done the Collector by making a petition successful penning oregon done online good successful beforehand of the lawsuit mentioning the projected spot and the date. They should besides notation the maximum fig of bulls to beryllium permitted.
The Animal Husbandry section should analyse the determination and depute veterinary teams and taxable the bulls to veterinary examination. The bulls should beryllium specifically examined for imaginable intoxicant abuse. A veterinary squad should beryllium deployed successful the postulation gait to supply indispensable aesculapian assistance to the bulls that completed the run.
The Health Department should taxable the tamers to a fittingness cheque to observe immoderate cause oregon intoxicant intake too providing archetypal assistance to the injured oregon unreserved them to a adjacent infirmary if needed. The tamers should beryllium supra the property of 18 years and registry themselves earlier taking part.
Double barricading of the arena to a minimum tallness of 8 feet to deter bulls from leaping implicit the barricades is different requirement. Adequate fig of constabulary unit should beryllium deployed and they should guarantee that the bull postulation gait was escaped from spectators and onlookers.
The yearly events successful the cardinal portion are held successful Tiruchi, Pudukottai, Thanjavur, Ariyalur, Perambalur and Karur with the maximum fig of events being organised successful Pudukottai district.
