Chip on cattle to rein in stray menace in industrial city

Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, September 14

For registration and electronic identification, the MC is going to launch a project under which microchips will be implanted on cattle at the local dairies and gaushalas. The tenders for the project are supposed to be floated on coming Monday, said MLA of Ludhiana East Sanjay Talwar.

In the first phase, 20,000 head of cattle are to be registered while the dairy owner concerned will have to pay for chip implant. Talwar said the expenditure on a single implant would be about Rs 200 and the project was expected to be completed within one month.

The implant would help the administration to trace the owner of abandoned cattle. Talwar said the project would be launched from the Ludhiana East constituency.

A meeting with dairy owners and committees of gaushalas was held at the Zone B office of the MC. Talwar said the dairy owners had been given instructions that they would be fully responsible to dispose of the waste generated at their dairies. If the waste from dairies is dumped in the Buddha Nullah or in sewers, the cattle of the erring dairy owner will be shifted to gaushalas and his dairy sealed, he added.

The MLA said: “An office-bearer of the Gau Vansh Manav Kalayan Sangh has stated that 2,000 head of stray cattle will be shifted to four gaushalas of the Dandi Swami Organisation and shifting will begin next week from the Ludhiana East constituency. The Sangh office-bearers will meet the Municipal Commissioner on Tuesday to sign an agreement.”