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Tiruchi Corporation has launched a sensitisation thrust to tackle the increasing menace of stray cattle, peculiarly successful the peripheral areas wherever the bovines endanger nationalist information and disrupt vehicular traffic.
The inaugural to impound stray cattle began successful November 2022, pursuing repeated complaints from residents and roadworthy users. The Corporation has engaged 3 agencies with peculiar vehicles to circular up stray animals and displacement them to shelters astatine Konakkarai and East Boulevard Road, which tin location 70 to 100 cattle. A punishment of ₹2,500 per caput is imposed connected owners erstwhile they assertion their impounded animals. Unclaimed cattle are auctioned.
According to an authoritative source, 1,423 animals person been impounded and ₹34.78 lakh collected successful punishment from owners since the motorboat of the initiative. Additionally, ₹5.16 lakh has been collected done the auctioning of 68 impounded cattle during the aforesaid period. The auctions were conducted 5 times implicit the past 3 years. In total, the thrust has generated ₹39.94 lakh.
Despite these efforts, areas specified arsenic Ponmalai, Vayalur Road, Cantonment, Kuzhumani Road, and Khajamalai, arsenic good arsenic respective metropolis stretches of the nationalist highways, peculiarly successful peripheral areas, proceed to stay hotspots of the menace. Cattle owners let their animals to graze connected vegetation on medians and roadsides, hindering creaseless vehicular movement.
In bid to sensitise cattle owners, nationalist announcements are being made done autorickshaws and the nationalist code systems connected the civic body’s discarded postulation vehicles, urging owners to support their cattle wrong their premises. They person warned that wandering cattle volition beryllium impounded if recovered connected the road.
The civic assemblage has intensified enforcement of the rules astatine nighttime and deployed teams to patrol the metropolis roads round-the-clock, covering some residential areas and large commercialized stretches. Special attraction is paid to arterial roads and marketplace zones wherever stray cattle often origin postulation bottlenecks.
“The thrust has been intensified and arsenic galore arsenic 58 caput of cattle person been seized this month. The combined attack of consciousness and strict enforcement would proceed until a noticeable simplification successful stray cattle incidents is achieved,” said a elder Corporation official.
