The provision of laws which are
enforceable by the central government in exercise of their power conferred
under the provision of prevention cruelity on animals act are enunciated as
under;-
The ministry of social justice and empowerment exercising
its power under sub section (1) of section 38 of the Prevention of cruelty to
animals act 1960 was pleased to promulgate the provision of the Prevention of
cruelty to animals (slaughter house ) Rules 2000. It is provided that the
slaughter means the killing
Or destruction of
animals for the purposes of food and include all the processes and operation perform on such
animals in order to prepare it for being slaughtered.
Under rule 2 ( c)
slaughter house means where in 10 or more than 10 animals are slaughtered per
day and duly licensed or recognized under a central, state or provincial act or
any rules or regulations made there under.
Thus the animals not to be slaughtered except in recognized
or licensed houses.
It is contemplated under rule 3 of the aforesaid Rules that
no person shall slaughter any animals within a municipal area except in a
slaughter house recognized or licensed by the concerned authority empowered
under the law for the time being in force to do so.
It is submitted that the sub rule (2) of Rule 3 provides
that no animal which is pregnant, or has offspring less than three months old,
or is under the age of three months or has not been certified by a veterinary
doctor that it is in a fit condition to be slaughtered shall be slaughtered.
The municipal or other local authority specified the Central
Government for this purpose shall, having regard to the capacity of the
slaughter house and the requirement of the local population of the area in
which a slaughter house is situated, determine the maximum number of animals
that may be slaughtered in a day.
Under sub rule (d) of Rule 2
veterinary doctor is define as registered person under the Indian Veterinary
Council Act , 1984. The duties assigned
to veterinary doctor are to examine thoroughly not more than 12 animals in an hour and not more than 96 animals in a
day and thereafter he is supposed to issue a fitness certificate in the form
specified the Central Government for slaughtering an animal.
The slaughter house shall have a reception area of adequate size
sufficient for livestock of the animal
and the corpus of the animal subject to the inspection by the authorized by a
veterinary doctor.
There is a further requirement that the separate isolation
pens shall be provided in the slaughter house with watering and feeding
arrangements for animals for animals suspected to be suffering from contagious
and infectious diseases, and fractious animals, in order to segregate that from
the remaining animals. The adequate
holding area shall also be provided in the slaughter house according to the
class of animals to be slaughtered. The
adequate supply of the water and feeding facilities is not the only criteria
but there shall be the resting ground provided to the animals. Thus the objective enshrined behind the
incorporation of these provisions is meant for not only providing a gesture of
humanitarian
Criterion, but it is also implemented in order to maintain
an equilibrium in the ecology cycle of the nature.
That ahinsah may be central to our world view, Yet millions
of animals are battered, blinded, force-fed steroids, dissected, mutilated and
eventually killed every year, often for no reason at all. Many more are condemned to a lifetime of
backbreaking slavery and then, in their old age, sent off to slaughter houses
or thrown out on the streets.
Millions are killed in legal and illegal abattoirs or hunted
down as easy game. Superstition and
religious rituals take an equally large number of lives. As do myopic development projects. Few notices because animals cannot
protest. They cannot protest when they
are maimed, tortured, killed , used for experiments and entertainment. Murdered for aphrodisiacs
and fake remedies. Forced out of their
natural habitats. Scarified to appease
the gods.
Hunters, poachers, movie makers, pet shops, circus owners,
drugs and cosmetics companies, fast food multinationals, dealers in furs and
ivory and leather goods, exporters of live animals and meat have people to back
them. Animals do not.
Under Rule 6 it is provided that no animal shall be
slaughtered in a slaughter house in sight of other animals. No animals shall be administered any
chemical, drug or hormone before slaughter except drug for its treatment from
any specific disease or ailment. The
slaughter halls in a slaughter house shall provide separate sections of
adequate dimensions sufficient for
slaughter of individual animals to ensure that the animal to be
slaughtered is not within the sight of other animals. Every slaughter house as soon as possible shall
provide a separate space for stunning of
animals prior to slaughter, bleedings and dressings of the carcasses. Knocking section in slaughter house may be so
planned as to suit the animal and particularly the ritual slaughter, if any and
such knocking section and dry landing area associated with it shall be so built
that escape from this section can be
easily carried out by an operator without allowing the animal to pass the
escape barrier.
That curbed-in bleeding area of adequate size as specified
by the Central Government shall be provided in a slaughter house and it shall
be so located that the blood could not be splashed on other animals being
slaughtered or on the carcass being skinned.
The blood drain and collection in a slaughter house shall be immediate
and proper. A floor wash point shall be
provided in a slaughter house for intermittent cleaning and a hand-wash basin
and knife sterilize shall also be
provided for the sticker to sterilize knife and wash his hands periodically.
Dressing of carcasses in a slaughter house shall not be done
on floor and adequate means and tools for dehiding or being of the animals
shall be provided in a slaughter house with means for immediate disposal of
hides or skins. Hides or skins shall be
immediately transported from a slaughter house either in a closed wheelbarrow
or by a chute provided with self-closing door and in no case such hides or
skins shall be spread on slaughter floor for inspection. Floor wash point and adequate number of hand
wash basins with sterlizer shall for immediate disposal of legs, horns, hooves
and other parts of animals through spring load floor chutes or side wall doors
or closed wheelbarrows and in case wheelbarrows or trucks are used in a
slaughter house, care shall be taken that no point wheelbarrow or truck has to
ply under the dressing rails and clear passage is provided for movement of the
trucks. Adequate space and suitable and
properly located facilities shall be provided sufficient for inspection of the
viscera of the various types of animals slaughtered in a slaughter house and it
shall have adequate facilities for hand
washing, tool sterilization and floor washing and contrivances for immediate separation and disposal of
condemned material. Adequate
arrangements shall be made in a slaughter house by its owner for
identification, inspection and correlation of carcass, viscera and head.
That under the municipal laws it is illegal to slaughter any
animal for meat except in a licences slaughter house, Where a government
slaughter house exists such as Idgah or Deonar, killing an animal in any other
place is illegal. Licensed slaughter
houses have to observe strict ISI rules relating to hygiene and the disposal of
waste matter e.g.- The need to be glass fronted to keep off flies, they must
have 300 liters of water to wash the chicken etc. Most slaughter houses ignore these rules and
operate in the filthiest conditions. A
clipping of CMC banning butchers from open display of meat, the transport of
meat in open vehicles . Even the chicken
stalls in your local markets are illegal.
The waste flows into the public sewers and contaminates your water
supply, You can complain against them and get them shut down. The municipal commissioner shall provide
restriction for running the illegal meat shops and also against killing more
than the specified number of animals.
That it is very painful and shocking that these are
extremely pernicious cruelty for animals and the milk is very harmful for
humans. It is illegal under the Food and
Drug Adulteration Prevention Act to give these injections, Find out from the
milkman and then inform the police and
the people buying the milk and have the dairy closed down.
It is illegal for more than 12 cows / buffaloes per bogey
and even then they have to go with an attendant and have to be milk giving cows
only,. However all old cattle are being overloaded in the
hundreds after paying bribes to the station master . These are sent for slaughter to West Bengal,
make friends with a railway employee so that you can be informed when such a
thing is happening . You must stop it
immediately, take the cattle off and register a case against the station master
and the owner of the cattle’s.
That the transport of the animals rules 1978 were amended by
the government of India the Ministry of Social Justice and empowerment on 26 Dec
2000 and made available to the public on the 1st Jan 2001 wherein
chapter VII and Chapter VIII were inserted.
The transport of poultry and pigs by rail or road were prescribed. It is provided that in transport of poultry
other than day old chicks and turkey poultry by rail, road or air. The poultry to be transported shall be
healthy and in good condition and shall be examined and certified by a
veterinary doctor for freedom from infectious diseases and fitness to undertake
the journey. Poultry transported in the
same container shall be of the same species and of the same age group. Poultry shall be properly fed and watered
before it is placed in containers for transportation and extra feed and water
shall be provided in suitable troughs fixed in the containers. Arrangements shall be made for watering and
feeding during transportation and during hot weather, watering shall be ensured
every six hours. Male stock shall not be
transported with female stock in the same container.
In transport of poultry by road, rail or air. Wire mesh or a net of any material shall not
be bottom for the containers. The
container shall be properly secured to avoid pilferage. The following instruction shall be printed on
a label and fixed to the lid or printed directly on sides, namely ”Care in
Transit”. The consignee shall be informed about the train, transport
or flight number and its time of arrival well in advance. Poultry shall not be transported continuously
for more than 6 hours and whole batch shall be inspected at every 6 hours
interval. The transportation shall not
remain stationary for more than 30 min and during this period, it shall be
parked kin shade and arrangements shall be made for feeding and watering. All precautions against fire shall be taken
and provision of fire extinguishers in transport shall be provided.
In the respect of transport of Pigs by rail or road for the
purpose of Chapter-VIII each consignment shall bear a label showing in bold red
letters the name, address and telephone number (if any) of the consignor and
consignee, the number and type of pigs being transported and quantity of
rations and food provided to them. The
consignee shall be informed in advance about the train or vehicle in which the
consignment of pigs is being sent and
its arrival time. The consignment of
pigs shall be booked by the next train or vehicle and shall not be detained
after the consignment is accepted for booking.
The Calcutta Municipal Corporation (C M C) has already
decided to ban open display of beef, mutton, ham, pork and fowl in meant shops
from March “It looks cruel and adversely
affects the tender feeling of children.
Moreover, the scene is often nauseating to thousands of vegetarians
.Butchers will now have to make arrangements for walls or thick curtains to
ensure that suspended skinned goats or limbs of cows or buffaloes are not visible to people. The restriction were
imposed for carrying beef, muttons, meat and pork through carts and rickshaws. It can only be transported in the covered van. Every day many unauthorized slaughtering of cows and buffaloes were
witnessed by the vegetarians in the open market but after the restrictions the
slaughtering of the animals came to an alarming low preposition. It is submitted that even the alternative
arrangement of slaughtering the goats
and sheep come to an abrupt halt.
The unchecked growth of chicken vendors and having cruelty upon them was
becoming a menace to the society and nuisance to the public. It is gruesome to witness chicken being hacked
to death and cut it into pieces like the vegetables . It inculcates a sense of cruelty among
children as it is done openly in the
markets or on the roads. Thus the
slaughtering of chicken was also prohibited
in the city. Thus the conclusion is inescapable that if
the will to protect the innocent animals is in the sentiments of the
administration regulating the society, the implementation of legal provisions
discuss above is not a difficult phenomenon.
The sensitivity of the individual
is provoked by the preaching of the great scholars and spiritual identities
in every period of the history of our
great nations and its tradition. We
cannot put aside the sermons of Lord Buddha, Lord Mahavira, Swami Vivekanand,
Swami Dayanand Sarasvati and of our
father of the nation after getting the independence . There is a need for preservation of valuable
heritage and to provide compassionate attitude under the glorious fundamental
duties caste upon every citizen under article 51-A (g) of the he constitution
of India.
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