THRISSUR: The state government is planning to set up 12 modern slaughterhouses under urban local bodies across the state, apart from reviving about 20-odd slaughterhouses, which are remaining unused. The urban local bodies selected for implementing the project are Kanhangad, Kannur, Kozhikode, Perinthalmanna, Kondotty, Palakkad, Kunnamkulam, Chalakudy, Aluva, Thiruvalla, Punaloor and Thiruvananthapuram.
Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB) is likely to invest Rs 100 crore for the project. According to minister for local self-government K T Jaleel the ensuing board meeting of the KIIFB would accord sanction to project.
The slaughterhouses would be equipped with modern facilities for slaughtering as well as for waste processing, he said.
The urban local bodies which have been selected for the setting up of the project, have been asked to submit willingness within a week.
The local bodies have to provide land for the project.
Suchitwa Mission has already invited companies to submit expressions of interest for empaneling the agencies for the execution of the project.
The KIIFB project evaluator Dr P V Mohanan said now only one modern slaughter house located at Brahmagiri in Wayanad was available for the public. Meat Products of India (MPI) has set up a modern slaughterhouse at Koothattukulam for the company's own use.
This is despite the fact that the 3.3 lakh cattle, 6.54 lakh buffaloes, and 3.38 lakh goats are being slaughtered in the state annually. Similarly, at least 15 lakh birds including chicken are also being slaughtered in the state per each day.
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"About 15,680 slaughtering centres are functioning in the state, with the registration given by the local bodies. However, as per the Food Safety and Standards Act, the slaughter houses must have licenses issued by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, from 2016. But none of these slaughtering centres have those licences," Mohanan said.
"Similarly, around 9,600 tonnes of meat waste is being generated at the poultry slaughtering centres alone in the state," Mohanan said. "Currently, most of the waste is being purchased by some illegal agents, who then dump it on the roadside and uninhabited areas at night hours. With the setting up of modern slaughtering units, the issue of waste treatment will also be over, which might, in turn, reduce the stray dog menace as well," he said.
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