Jharkhand’s first mechanised abattoir was finally inaugurated by Deputy Mayor Sanjeev Vijayvargiya and CEO of Ranchi Municipal Corporation Shantanu Agrahari at Kanke on Sunday. Though, the Noida based company -- Micro Transmissions System, selected to run the abattoir, will take some time to get it started as some formalities are yet to be completed.
“The Noida based company has been handed over the state of the art hi-tech abattoir, constructed in 5 acres of land investing Rs 18 crore, so that people could get hygienic meat,” said Vijayvargiya. It has a capacity to slaughter 1000 goats in 8 hours, sufficient to cater the needs of the city, he added.
Vijayvargiya, however, was of the view that they will have to work hard to make it a practice of getting their animals slaughtered in the abattoir from hygiene point of view. “It is already in practice in several cities in other States and people as it also serves the purpose of providing hygienic meat to the people, besides giving relief to the vegetarian people who were opposed of open showcasing animal carcass in meat shops,” said the Deputy Mayor. All we need is to create awareness among the meat show owners that it was in their interest which will take some time, he added.
The RMC CEO said that the processed meat will be delivered to the meat shops by refrigerated vans and five smart outlets will be opened from where people could get hygienic meat.
Remarkably, the first mechanised abattoir had been lying unused since June last year as no any company was interested running it, despite the fact that tender was floated four times earlier also. Finally, Micro Transmissions System came forward to take it over with a condition that it would pay 20 per cent as commission on daily earnings, but no annual rent.
Earlier efforts were being made to collect an annual rent of Rs 1 crore from the perspective companies which was later brought down to Rs 80 lakh as nobody came forward to take it over.
Spread across six acres at Arsande in Kanke, work on the abattoir began in 2012 and was completed in June 2017. It has been built to handle 1,000 goats per day.