More land for SPCA

Lodha pointed out that the board had recommended the closure of all illegal slaughter houses including those mechanised abattoirs which operated only to get foreign exchange. "But as there’s a tug-of-war on within the government, nothing has happened so far," he added.

Also present at the conference was SPCA president and AWBI’s executive member Jasbir Ralhan who announced that the Society had been allotted another four kanals of land by the Administration. The land is adjacent to the SPCA hospital in Sector 38 (west) where the society already has two kanals of land.

Ralhan revealed that gaushala (cow sheds) would be constructed on the land and the animals would have ample space to move about.

When the stray cattle menace in the City was brought to the notice of Lodha, he said it was the job of the municipal corporation to take care of them and the animals could be handed over to the "gaushalas".

Lodha also said that he had talks with the UT Advisor Jagdish Sagar in the morning where several issues like that of stray cattle were discussed.

Lodha will visit Punjab in October, he would lay stone of SPCA branch in S.A.S. Nagar and at some other places if possible.