In Haryana,transporting animals gets new commandments

Transport Commissioner Sumita Misra said,“Directions have been issued to sensitize the owners and drivers of goods carriages transporting animals,to prevent any cruelty to them. No animal would be carried in goods carriage in public place unless the body of the vehicle is built of strong wooden planks or of iron sheets with a minimum height of 1.05 metres measured from the floor of the vehicle in all sides and the back. The animal should be properly secured by ropes tied to the sides of the vehicle. While carrying an animal in a goods carriage,the owner of the vehicle would not carry more than 40 at a time when the wheel base of such vehicle is below 3.6 metres and not more than 50 when the wheel base of the vehicle is 3.6 metres or above in case of goats,sheeps,pigs,deer,rams,ewes and the like”.

“ Similarly,they would not carry more than four with calves or young ones or five without calves or young ones,in the case of animals more than those referred to above when the wheel base is below 3.6 metres and not carry more than five with calves or young ones or six without calves or young ones when the wheel base of such vehicle is 3.6 metres or above,” Misra added.

According to the new instructions,no animal would be carried for more than 200 kms at a stretch and there would be a break of four to six hours after eight hours of continuous journey.

Similarly,no goods carriage would be driven at a speed in excess of 25 kms per hour while carrying any animal. No goods carriage would carry any other goods except fodder necessary to feed the animals on the way.