Fly Menace: Teams to keep check on poultry units in Barwala, Raipur Rani

Panchkula, January 10

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To tackle fly menace in the Barwala and Raipur Rani areas, Deputy Commissioner Mahavir Kaushik has constituted six teams, with each having five members.

These teams will ensure regular spray of insecticides, conduct surprise checks and challan poultry farm owners violating guidelines.

There are around 100 poultry farms in 40 villages of the two blocks.

Kaushik issued these orders after presiding over a meeting with representatives of poultry owners.

In the meeting, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Deputy Director Anil Banwala apprised the DC of the fly menace in both blocks.

He said there had been clear instructions to poultry farm owners to spray insecticides four times a year, but on several occasions, it was done only two times. “The irregularity keeps the problem alive, the brunt of which is faced by village residents,” Banwala added.

From now on, the newly constituted teams will prepare a schedule to check documents pertaining to insecticide purchase by poultry farm owners and further conduct raids to ensure its timely spray.

Haryana State Pollution Control Board Regional Officer Virender Punia and Raipur Rani Tehsildar Virender Gill were among those present in the meeting.

A special task force committee constituted by the then DC Vinay Pratap Singh last year had issued notices to 16 poultry farms for irregularities found in the wake of a complaint by an animal husbandry team. — TNS