The Times of India          17.02.2014

Civic body awaits nod for advanced slaughterhouse

KOZHIKODE: The Kozhikode Corporation authorities are expecting positive response from the investors in the forthcoming investors meet to be held in Kochi for its advanced slaughterhouse at Kothi.

The advanced slaughter house is one of the proposals which will be presented in the 'Partner Kerala' investors meet in Kochi on February 24 and 25.

The advanced slaughterhouse is planned on Public-Private-Partnership model.

The civic body had already acquired 94 cents for the project and had set-aside a sum of Rs 20 lakh to construct a wall around the acquired land.

The civic body does not have any monitoring system in place to check the quality of meat being sold at the meat shops.

The civic body decided to include the proposal in the investors meet as the project needs more than Rs 2 crore funding. The corporation is planning to complete the works at the earliest to ensure that the shops here sell only hygienic meat.

Health standing committee chairperson Janamma Kunjunni said that the civic body would be able to properly monitor the selling of meat in the shops once the slaughter house becomes a reality.

"The meat waste would be converted into value-added products like manure and pet foods,'' said the chairperson.