PMC takes first step towards city without stray pigs

The project is estimated to cost Rs 80 lakh and will require State and Central government funding. However, the standing committee will give 15 acres of land at survey numbers 9-14 at Mundhwa to the Sanstha which will have to pay a premium of over Rs 9 lakh.

The pigs will be reared here, said Vilas Wadekar, Nationalist Congress Party NCP corporator who had even led a pig8217;s morcha8217; in 1996 to protest against the cruel treatment to the animals.

As per Section 14 22 8211; 3 of the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation Act, the Municipal Commissioner has the power to depute staff to catch the stray pigs and kill them in an isolated area. The practice is rampant with the pigs being taken to Devachi Urali and slaughtered, Wadekar told mediapersons.

Wadekar said that the proposed piggery would take care of all stray pigs. A slaughter house is also proposed on the farm. Leftovers and waste matter from hotels and vegetable markets in the city would be served to the pigs.