| Seven members committee set up to check unauthorized pet shops, animal abuse | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 19: To check on the unregulated pet shops mushrooming in posh Jammu and in its city outskirts in Jammu region Jammu, Commissioner Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC), Mandeep Kour has constituted a seven members committee.
The committee constituted comprised Municipal Veterinary Officer, JMC, Concerned Station House Officer, Representative of Chief Animal Husbandry Officer, S Balwinder Singh, President SAVE (NGO), Devinder Kaur Madaan (An Honorary Animal Welfare Officer of the Animal Welfare Board of India, Ministry of Environment and Forests (Govt of India), Pooja Rampai, Observer Animal Welfare Board of India, Namrata Hakhoo, Member SAVE and Member, SPCA.
Here it needs to mention that Chairperson SAVE also had submitted a representation to the then Commissioner Jammu Municipal Corporation in June last year just to seek stopping the abuse being faced by animals at the breeding farms and pet shops.
Here it needs to mention that 'SAVE -Save Animals and Value Environments' chairperson Rumpy Madaan is endevouring to create awareness among people and those who in animal rearing trade to get the due licences with Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) which is mandatory for the rearing and the concerned authorities awoke from the deep slumber and constituted a seven member committee to keep check on it. Even raids were conducted on June 25 last year by the Jammu Municipal Corporation on 'Animal planet' in Roop Nagar and 'empire pet ' in Gandhi Nagar but till today only 1 shop has been liscensed.
Though it was repeatedly advertised in the newspaper by the Veterinary Officer Jammu Municipal Corporation but this remains unheard as the people involved in the trade know that the authorities are toothless and weak enough to take action against them and they go ahead with their illegal activities. For inept as per the Animal Birth Control Rules, 2001 framed under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, all breeders and exhibitors of dogs have to get registered with the Animal welfare boards of India (AWBI). |
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