The City District Government has announced launching crackdown against cattle pens, who failed in shifting their cowsheds till February 28 and formed four squads comprising police, concerned town representatives and livestock officials. The squad would load cattle on trucks to drop them outside the city.
The cattle pen owners have been warned for facing stern action from March 1, if they defied the orders. This was decided at a high-level meeting of local government representatives, officials and police held with city district nazim Mian Faisal Mukhtar in the chair on Monday.
Presently, 1000 cattle pens are operating in the city in congested, posh, residential and business areas and their daily waste discharge is creating environmental problems and promoting diseases. These cattle pens release 30,000 cows, buffaloes walking on roads daily, spreading waste everywhere which creates sewerage problems.
The shifting of cattle pens has already been done in Lahore, Gujranwala and Faisalabad. The strategy has been finalised for crack down operation on cattle pens is that all the SHOs have been directed for preparing lists of cattle pens situated in the jurisdiction of their respective police station.
Police would have to issue unabated warnings to cattle pens owners for shifting besides making announcements from mobile mega phones, establishing check posts to stop fodder. Each cattle owner would be fined to the tune of Rs 15,000 under LG Ordinance on violating by-laws.
The CDG has installed transformers streetlights at Bucha Gawala colony with complete water arrangements. Multan Additional SP Fiyyiaz Ahmed told this scribe that additional force and transport infrastructure had been provided to all police stations to make crack down successful while the action would be taken against illegal entry of trucks, tractor trolleys carrying fodder for cattle pens.
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