No additional slaughter houses in India
Panel rejects meat export proposals
NEW DELHI: Given the BJP’s
views on animal slaughter, the Planning
Commission has backed off on
proposals to expand the meat sector.
On Tuesday, it said it had not accepted
the recommendations of its
working group and therefore, no new
scheme for this sector has been sanctioned.
The preliminary recommendations
of the sub-group looking into this for
the 10th Plan had recommended increasing
meat exports, stressed the
need to sustain the leather sector and
even called for a removal of the ban
on beef exports. First reported in this
newspaper in April, the group suggested
it was time to consider improving
the cow economy through better
utilisation of bullocks so that cow
protection could be ensured.
This potentially embarrassing set
of recommendations for the BJP
evoked a strong protest from animal
rights activist and the then minister
Maneka Gandhi.
(The Times of India- September 17, 02)
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