Amid crackdown of illegally-run slaughterhouses in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the new government have come up with the list of rules that are expected to be followed by the meat shop owners. Recently, the meat shop owners in Lucknow went on an indefinite strike after new UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s government banned several unlicensed slaughterhouses in the state.
According to a Times of India report, the government has now listed certain rules to be followed by meat shop owners in a bid to bring some regulation in the system. Here are the rules:
-Meat shops owners should sell meat and set their shops beyond 50-metre radius of the religious place including temples and 100-metre radius from the main entrance of the religious places.
-Meat shops owners will not be allowed to set up their shops near vegetable markets.
-Meat cannot be slaughtered openly and will have to cover their shops with curtains or tinted glass so that the public cannot see it.
– People working at the shops will have to attain a medical certificate from a doctor.
-Meat owners selling the meat will have to have to get it certified from authorised vets.
-Slaughtering ailing or pregnant animal will not be allowed.
-Meat sellers will have to get their walls painted every six months.
-They also should make appropriate arrangements to dispose the waste and cannot dump openly.
-Meat should be stored in insulated freezer vehicles.
-Meat sellers will also be required to have geysers in their shops and have fridges with transparent doors.
The Gujarat Assembly recently amended the cow protection law announcing a life term on those found guilty of slaughtering cows. The state assembly passed the amendment to the Gujarat Animal Preservation Act of 1954 providing for a maximum punishment of up to life imprisonments and a fine of up to Rs five lakh. With this new law, Gujarat has become the first state in the country to make have made cow slaughter punishable.
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