Daijiworld Media Network - Belgaum (SP)

Belgaum, Jul 22: Yallappa Kurubar, city Mayor, has threatened to commit suicide, if the slaughterhouses located in Auto Nagar and Kanbaragi in the city are not shifted within 15 days.  He is frustrated after his repeated pleas to the concerned to shift the slaughterhouses outside these areas, failed to get the desired result.

The general session of the Corporation's council had earlier passed a resolution for shifting these slaughterhouses. A delegation led by Kurubar met the headquarters assistant Vijay Kumar Toragal on Tuesday July 21 and apprised him of the problems posed by these slaughterhouses to the people of the city.

Former city mayor Shivaji Sunthakar, who lives in Kanbaragi area, accused the slaughterhouses of flouting hygiene norms and throwing pieces of flesh and animal waste etc., into the lakes. The animals get sick after drinking water from the lakes, he said. He also said that a youth had recently died after riding over a piece of flesh lying on the road opposite a slaughterhouse and succumbing to injuries sustained therein. Shivaji also pointed out that the areas where the slaughterhouses are located in large numbers, have become the hunting  ground for stray dogs, due to lack of cleanliness, endangering the lives of citizens who are scared to take a stroll in these areas.

Corporator Sambhajirao Patil, a four-times mayor, accused the district administration of dragging its feet on the issue of shifting the slaughterhouses to outskirts. "Repeated requests of the Corporation to the district administration on this issue  have fallen on deaf ears," he rued.

It is said, the district administration has identified a site near Kakati village for relocating the slaughterhouses. Vijay Kumar Torgal assured Sunthakar that arrangements would be made within a month to shift the slaughterhouses.