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MCD unveils plans for an automatic abattoir

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“We want to put an end to illegal slaughtering”

NEW DELHI: Chairman of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi Standing Committee Vijender Gupta, on Wednesday, said the project to make the Ghazipur slaughterhouse fully automatic would include a comprehensive provision for maintenance. This has been done keeping in mind that a glitch at any stage of the slaughtering process would result in a complete stoppage of the machinery.

“We want to put an end to illegal and unhygienic slaughtering that takes place in areas like Idgah and have invited global tenders for the project. We hope to have a trial run of the slaughterhouse by November 30,” Mr. Gupta said.

The Chairman said he was hopeful that the new, automatic abattoir would be a commercially viable and profitable venture for the MCD.

Responding to allegations by several Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress Councillors that many “free” MCD parking lots had been sub-let and the contractors were charging a fee for parking and that most of them were unsafe without any fire safety precautions, the Chairman directed Additional Deputy Commissioner Amiya Chandra to chalk out the existing parking space in each of the 272 zones and clarify which parking lots were paid and which free.

He also asked Mr. Chandra to inspect whether parking lots in the city were de-marking their legal parking area by drawing the mandatory yellow lines.

The Chairman gave an update of the Civic Centre Building coming up in the vicinity of the New Delhi railway station saying: “The centre is being designed in such a manner that it has a convenient approach. To achieve this, we are constructing four underpasses and three pedestrian crossings in the area. But for this we have used some area that comes under the purview of the New Delhi Municipal Council.”

Responding to the Delhi Government’s demand for providing community halls and recreation centres under the MCD for setting up Voter’s Registration Centres and Electors Photo Identity Card Centres, Mr. Gupta said only the vacant and unused community halls would be handed over.

The MCD would also demand Rs.150 crore from the Delhi Government to clean up the unauthorised colonies which have been lying neglected, he said.

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