It has been almost a year since the shutters of the only
slaughterhouse under the City Corporation at Kunnukuzhy got closed when
it failed to manage the waste generated in a scientific way in the
absence of a centralised waste treatment plant.

 While there is an
absence of a mechanism to keep tabs on illegal slaughterhouses booming
in the city and consumers are left with no option but to buy meat of
suspicious quality, in a last-ditch effort, the civic body is trying to
process the slaughterhouse waste at the biogas plant opened at Connemara
market in Palayam recently.

 In order to revive its earlier
proposal to slaughter smaller animals such as goats, the civic body has
submitted a proposal to Pollution Control Board (PCB) to process the
remains in the biogas plant at Connemara market, Palayam. “The proposal
was submitted and we are awaiting a response from the PCB,” said health
standing committee chairperson S Pushpalatha. The condition of the
slaughterhouse was raised in the Assembly on Wednesday and Urban Affairs
Minister Manjalamkuzhi Ali said the matter would be discussed with the
City Corporation. “Compared to the waste generated after slaughtering
large animals, the leftovers of smaller animals would be far less,” said
veterinary doctor Dr Bijulal, who has been deputed in the veterinary
hospital at Pettah after the closure of the slaughterhouse.