MC slaughter house to be modernised by spending Rs 19.5 crore

Ludhiana, March 12, 2015: In a good news for the city residents, the Centre government has approved and sanctioned the project to modernise the existing slaughter house located on Hambran Road, here. This project has been sanctioned by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India. The centre government has also sanctioned an amount of Rs 7.93 crore for this project.

The total cost for upgrading the present slaughterhouse on Hambran Road is around Rs 19.5 crore, of which Rs 7.93 crore will be spent by the Centre Government as its share. The remaining cost will be borne by the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation. The Centre Government has released the share of Rs 7.93 crore yesterday.

Dr Y P Singh, Veterinary Officer, Ludhiana MC informed that once this slaughter house is modernised and starts operations, there will be no slaughtering of animals either on roadside or in meat shops. He said that at present, manual slaughtering of only sheep and goat animals is going on at the existing slaughter house located on two-acre piece of land on Hambran Road, here. He said that the new modernised slaughter house would be fully automated.

He said that once this slaughter house is modernised, it would have a capacity for slaughtering 2,000 poultry birds an hour, 250 small animals (Halal) and 250 small animals (Jhatka). The small animals to be slaughtered at the state-of-the-art modernised slaughter house would be sheep, goat and pigs.

A S Sekhon, Joint Commissioner (Health), Ludhiana MC, informed that the modernised slaughter house will have facilities such as cutting and packing of animals. He said that people and shopkeepers willing to get their animals slaughtered in a clean environment would be benefitted in a big way as all this process would be carried on very nominal prices. He said that this would improve quality and would reduce pollution.

Now that the grant in aid of Rs 7.93 crore has been sanctioned, the Ludhiana MC would be floating the tenders for this project. Once the tendering process is completed, the modernisation of the slaughter house would start. The new modernised slaughter house would even help in checking the menace of illegal roadside slaughter houses located in different parts of the city.