JOIN USMeat sellers for affordable fee; MCC says hygiene first
If the traders ensure hygiene, only then will the local body take a note of demand for relaxing the revised rate.
Starting from Wednesday, five teams of officers comprising environmental engineer and veterinary officer in each area, began to inspect the stalls- mutton, chicken and fish- in the city. The traders have to ensure that they are equipped with trade licence, glass covering, hand over waste to the designated person from the corporation and authority’s seal on every meat butchered. It’s imperative in maintaining hygiene, especially with Dasara in the offing.
To enable traders dispose off the waste generated, one tipper lorry would cover the mutton stalls at Mandi, Devaraja and Vani Vilas markets.
Auto tippers with GPS
Five auto tippers would cover all the stalls from permanent to mobile totalling around 430. To ensure that the vehicles are covering the fixed route, they will be monitored with GPS fitted in each vehicles.
The waste collected would be dumped in a huge trench dug in third stage of Kesare on the outskirts of the city.
You may be asking why trench? According to the officers at the civic body it helps check foul smell emanating from the waste treatment plant at sewage farm in Vidyaranyapuram.
Mutton waste mixed with normal waste and dumped at the sewage was reeking of unpleasant smell adding to the civic woes in the neighbouring localities.
Moreover, the stray animals feeding on such waste get ferocious, the reason why dogs attacked children recently, an officer claimed.
Sources in MCC said, nearly five slaughter houses are being run in illegal manner.
A deadline of 15 days has been set to the traders to adhere to the norms or else the shops would be closed down mercilessly, an officer warned.