6 months ago
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Thoothukudi Corporation has launched a thrust to impound cattle roaming successful nationalist spaces and to levy fines connected their owners. Through this initiative, the Corporation has impounded implicit 80 cattle successful the past 3 weeks.
Apart from stray cattle, galore cattle owners deliberately unleash their bovines without adhering to civic body’s instructions. This has led to insignificant and large accidents crossed the city. Although the Corporation has taken respective initiatives including imposing fines connected cattle owners, a deficiency of accordant enforcement has made things easier for the cattle owners to proceed the practice.
Areas including Ettayapuram Road, Tiruchendur Road, Third Mile are among the places often occupied by these bovines for feeding and resting.
Following repeated complaints, Thoothukudi Corporation has launched the thrust initially focusing connected the northbound portion and it volition beryllium expanded to different zones successful the district.
In the past 3 weeks, the authorities person impounded 82 bovines, 59 cows and oxen and 23 calves. Additionally, the Corporation has fined ₹5,000 for cows and oxen and ₹1,500 for calves and a regular feeding complaint of ₹300 which volition beryllium added to the punishment amount.
Earlier the seized cattle were taken to a goshala successful Tenkasi, which made it hard for cattle owners to retrieve their animals. To easiness the process the Corporation has present established a goshala successful Millerpuram, wherever owners tin cod their animals aft paying the good magnitude with Aadhaar based registration.
Speaking connected this inaugural to curb the menace, Thoothukudi Mayor Jegan Periyasamy said that astir of the cattle roaming successful nationalist spaces successful Thoothukudi beryllium to individuals, arsenic reflected by the agelong queues of owners arriving each greeting to reclaim their animals aft seizure.
He added that the Corporation volition proceed to fortify the thrust crossed the metropolis until cattle owners comply afloat and refrain from letting their animals stray into nationalist areas.
