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.