Ban on sale of poultry lifted in Nurpur areas

Our Correspondent

NURPUR, JANUARY 28

The Kangra district administration today lifted the ban on the sale of poultry products, fish and meat in Indora, Fatehpur, Jawali and Dehra subdivisions. The ban, however, will continue to be enforced in the 10-km radius of the bird influenza (H5N1)-infected zone (Bathu ki Lari) near Pong wetland in Fatehpur subdivision.

Kangra DC Rakesh Prajapati, who issued order of lifting the ban last evening, told The Tribune that after information from the Deputy Director, Animal Husbandry, that no poultry death had been reported in the district besides sharp decline in the mortality of migratory birds in Pong Wetland Birds Sanctuary, the administration had lifted the ban with restrictions only in some bird flu-infected areas around the Pong Wetland.