Haryana Government has urged the States of Rajasthan, Punjab, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh to launch stray cattle-free programme in their respective States so that unwanted migration of such cattle could be prevented effectively in the State.
In a demi-official letter addressed to the Chief Ministers of Rajasthan, Punjab, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Manohar lal informed that sometimes, large number of stray cattle enters in Haryana, which shares a large part of its boundary with these States, from other side of border.
This has adversely affected the stray cattle-free programme of the State, said he.
Manohar lal urged them to cooperate in this noble cause and launch a similar programme in their respective states so that the entire region could be made completely stray cattle-free.
Referring to the stray cattle-free programme launched in the State, the Chief Minister said it had been launched to tackle the problem of stray cattle by way of rehabilitating these animals in the gaushalas, nandishalas, gau-grah and cattle ponds at various places in the state.
The Government has shifted more than 90 per cent stray cattle to these centres and provided them a better environment to live in. This move had not only made the roads animal free and lowered the incidences of accidents but also prevented the loss to our farmers as these animals were also damaging their crops, he added.
Meanwhile, the State Government has decided to get third party verification conducted in the districts which are declared stray cattle free by the respective district administration in the state.
An official spokesman said that Chief Minister has directed all the Deputy Commissioners and Municipal Commissioners to put in place concerted efforts to make all the districts and towns completely stray cattle free.
He said that Haryana is the first state in the country which has taken the initiative to make all its town’s stray cattle free.
The State Government had recently declared three districts namely Nuh, Yamunanagar and Fatehabad as stray cattle-free.
As per an estimate, about 1.5 lakh stray cattle were in the state out of which 1.4 lakh have been accommodated and rehabilitated in the gaushalas and nandishalas. Shouldering the responsibility to serve the cattle, the government had already given a financial assistance of more than Rs four crore to the gaushalas and nandishalas during the current financial year, said the spokesman.
The work to rehabilitate the abandoned cattle is being undertaken in the entire state, he added.