Admn providing fodder to stray animals

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, April 1

The district administration has started providing fodder to stray animals roaming freely in different parts of the city.

While life has come to a standstill in the wake of Covid-19 scare, things are not going down well with stray animals.

The district administration has taken steps to ensure that stray animals get fodder/green grass to eat in these testing times.

Deputy Commissioner B Srinivasan said: “We are in constant touch with gaushalas in the district to ensure that there is no shortage of fodder for animals. As of now, there is adequate fodder available for animals in gaushalas.”

Deputy Director, Animal Husbandry Department, Amrik Singh said: “In all gaushalas in the district, there is sufficient stock of fodder for now and we have taken steps to ensure uninterrupted supply of fodder in the coming days as well.”

He said apart from the Municipal Corporation, help extended by social service organisations have played a significant role so far.

“To ensure that stray animals get fodder to eat, we have made arrangements of vehicles to carry it to the interior roads in the city. Apart from Verka, the supply of milk from villages by milkmen has also been streamlined now. Apart from that, the supply of eggs and other products has also been started,” Singh said.