Meat row? CM Yogi Adityanath enforcing laws that existed for years

[IndoCarib]

LUCKNOW: Even as people go ballistic over news of meat shops being closed down across UP, what the government is doing is simply enforcing rules regarding slaughter and transport of animals. These rules were hardly wielded by municipal corporations so far.

Under the Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959, it is a mandatory service of local bodies to provide fresh and hygienic meat to people while ensuring construction and regulation of slaughterhouse within city limits. Sections 421 to 430 lay down rules for functioning of a slaughterhouse, sale of animals and control of private slaughterhouses.

As most established slaughterhouses and meat shops were running without licence, there is a big meat crisis in the state now that rules have been enforced. According to Nagar Palika Parishads, around 140 slaughterhouses and over 50,000 meat shops were running illegally in UP under the nose of officials as no one cared to follow the norms.

After the famous Lakshmi Narayan Modi vs Union of India case, in which SC ordered all state governments in 2012 to form committees for monitoring modernisation and relocation of slaughterhouses in every city and ensure that appropriate measures are taken to deal with their solid waste and pollution, the UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) issued closure orders+ to around 140 illegal slaughterhouses in UP.

However, despite those orders in 2012, most of them were still operational. CM Yogi Adityanath's government launched an campaign against illegal slaughtering of cattle and forced the bureaucracy to act upon rules in three days. Over 100 illegal slaughterhouses and hundreds of unauthorised butcher shops have been shut down.

Consider this: In Lucknow alone, around 1,000 illegal shops were operating. Of these, 200 were closed by LMC this week. Many have shut shop in fear of being interrogated and punished by police.

he axe is only on illegal meat shops running without permission of the municipal commissioner but the irony is that more than half of the shops in UP are slaughtering and selling meat without licence.


A UPPCB official told TOI, "The system has failed as neither butchers take the pains to seek a licence nor are officials conscious of their duties. All municipal bodies should construct a slaughterhouse as per Slaughter House Rules 2001, but UP has failed in doing so."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...at-existed-for-years/articleshow/57822954.cms

@The_Showstopper

 

[Nilgiri]

LUCKNOW: Even as people go ballistic over news of meat shops being closed down across UP, what the government is doing is simply enforcing rules regarding slaughter and transport of animals. These rules were hardly wielded by municipal corporations so far.

Under the Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959, it is a mandatory service of local bodies to provide fresh and hygienic meat to people while ensuring construction and regulation of slaughterhouse within city limits. Sections 421 to 430 lay down rules for functioning of a slaughterhouse, sale of animals and control of private slaughterhouses.

As most established slaughterhouses and meat shops were running without licence, there is a big meat crisis in the state now that rules have been enforced. According to Nagar Palika Parishads, around 140 slaughterhouses and over 50,000 meat shops were running illegally in UP under the nose of officials as no one cared to follow the norms.

After the famous Lakshmi Narayan Modi vs Union of India case, in which SC ordered all state governments in 2012 to form committees for monitoring modernisation and relocation of slaughterhouses in every city and ensure that appropriate measures are taken to deal with their solid waste and pollution, the UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) issued closure orders+ to around 140 illegal slaughterhouses in UP.

However, despite those orders in 2012, most of them were still operational. CM Yogi Adityanath's government launched an campaign against illegal slaughtering of cattle and forced the bureaucracy to act upon rules in three days. Over 100 illegal slaughterhouses and hundreds of unauthorised butcher shops have been shut down.

Consider this: In Lucknow alone, around 1,000 illegal shops were operating. Of these, 200 were closed by LMC this week. Many have shut shop in fear of being interrogated and punished by police.

he axe is only on illegal meat shops running without permission of the municipal commissioner but the irony is that more than half of the shops in UP are slaughtering and selling meat without licence.


A UPPCB official told TOI, "The system has failed as neither butchers take the pains to seek a licence nor are officials conscious of their duties. All municipal bodies should construct a slaughterhouse as per Slaughter House Rules 2001, but UP has failed in doing so."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...at-existed-for-years/articleshow/57822954.cms

@The_Showstopper

More law and order, big drive to improve roads and big drive to improve sanitation.

So far I cannot fault the start of the Yogi admin.

 

[IndoCarib]

Despite all the fuss, Yogi Adityanath's Gorakhpur is no case study of polarisation


http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

 

[DineshS]

As per sickulars laws are for only Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, jews & parsis.

 

[Soumitra]

From an article in The Gaurdian

A thick blanket now hangs over Jawad Ali’s shopfront, and he passes his days with other out-of-work butchers reading the newspaper and gossiping darkly about what might be coming next. “For several generations we’ve been butchers,” he says. He admits he has been operating his shop unlicensed for the 15 years – but not for lack of trying. “Since 2002 the government stopped renewing meat licences because of Yogi Adityanath and his movement,” he says.

A previous government, one that relied on Muslim votes to hold office, worked out a compromise between its voter base and the growing clamour to ban cow and buffalo meat in the state: butchers such as Ali would be denied licences, but allowed to continue running their businesses.

The bargain held until Adityanath’s unexpected ascension. The crackdown on butchers has left up to 2,500 families in Gorakhpur without an income.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...uscular-hinduism-shock-election?CMP=edit_2221

 

[kris]

From an article in The Gaurdian

A thick blanket now hangs over Jawad Ali’s shopfront, and he passes his days with other out-of-work butchers reading the newspaper and gossiping darkly about what might be coming next. “For several generations we’ve been butchers,” he says. He admits he has been operating his shop unlicensed for the 15 years – but not for lack of trying. “Since 2002 the government stopped renewing meat licences because of Yogi Adityanath and his movement,” he says.

A previous government, one that relied on Muslim votes to hold office, worked out a compromise between its voter base and the growing clamour to ban cow and buffalo meat in the state: butchers such as Ali would be denied licences, but allowed to continue running their businesses.

The bargain held until Adityanath’s unexpected ascension. The crackdown on butchers has left up to 2,500 families in Gorakhpur without an income.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...uscular-hinduism-shock-election?CMP=edit_2221

I smell something fishy...
A govt can't deny license if norms are followed, that do when SC has directed all the states to.
May be rules don't permit them to run shop in the existing place.
Every person will give his point of view only