HUBLI: The Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation will once again start the drive to eradicate menace of stray pigs within corporation limits, after a gap of two years.

The drive against stray pigs is scheduled to start on Wednesday and the Health Officer of the Corporation has already issued a warning to persons involved in rearing pigs for meat.

Criminal cases to be filed

In a release, Health Officer A.C. Swamy has warned that criminal cases would be registered against those engaged in rearing pigs who fail to prevent the animals from straying on roads. He said all pigs straying on roads and gutters would either be shot dead or caught and poisoned.

The corporation has sought assistance from the Hubli-Dharwad Police Commissionerate for killing stray pigs. According to the agreement between the two, the corporation will bear the expenses of the ammunition for killing the stray pigs and the Police Commissionerate will depute sharp shooters for killing them.

It may be recalled that the menace of stray pigs had led to heated arguments at a recent coordination committee meeting on the development of twin cities in which Primary and Secondary Education Minister Basavaraj S. Horatti and Revenue and district-in-charge minister Jagadish Shettar were present.

In fact, both the ministers had asked the Police Commissioner why the drive against stray pigs taken up two years ago could not be repeated. After much discussion, the Police Commissioner had agreed to give assistance to the corporation in this regard.

The corporation had killed stray pigs with the assistance of police for the first time during 2004, when Anilkumar Patil was the Mayor.

Then some of those engaged in pig rearing had staged protests. But the corporation had gone ahead with the drive.

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