JMC Commissioner Rahul Yadav denied shortage of feed or fodder in the cattle pond.
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Death of at least nine rescued cows in a cattle pond of the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) here has triggered a controversy. The issue has been highlighted on social media by animal welfare activists who alleged these cows have died due to starvation.
Reacting to the issue, JMC Commissioner Rahul Yadav denied shortage of feed or fodder in the cattle pond. “There is no shortage of feed and fodder in JMC Gaushala as claimed. Facility was created with the objective to provide shelter to the stray and abandoned animals found within JMC limits,” he clarified in a series of tweets,
He said the Animals being shifted by the District Police authorities were rescued from illegal bovine transportation and smuggling. They are found in very grave health conditions, some of them even collapsed while shifting as most of them are in their terminal stage of life.
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“During transportation period for several days,” the commissioner said, “they were poorly fed and maintained and given sedatives and anesthetic injections, due to that they do not recover even after giving continuous treatment for days and providing proper feed and fodder. Due to the non-availability of similar facilities or animal shelters in other parts of the district, the District Police started shifting of the rescued animals.”
Yadav further said while rescued animals have a high death rate, JMC is trying its best to provide shelter even to the rescued animals from outside JMC limits. “We care for all our animals and our responsibility,” he argued in a post on Twitter with some pictures of the sedated animals.
It is worth mentioning here that the J&K Police has been intercepting and rescuing a large number of cattle being transported illegally from the Jammu division. Many such rescue operations have been conducted by the police at Nagrota near here on the Jammu-Srinagar highway.
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