Hindustan Times 16.09.2010
No respite in sight from bovine baneMeira Bhatia counsel for Common Cause, an NGO, which filed a PIL to shift illegal dairies from the city said: “This is for the third time that the MCD has sought an extension since May 2007 from the same court. The previous court orders have become infructuous with the municipal corporation asking for another extension.”
The MCD has filed an application in the court stating that it needs another year to develop Ghogha Dairy Colony, where 2,080 plots are available.
The civic agency claimed that it has sought applications from dairy owners for allotments.
Earlier, 1,373 dairy owners had applied for allotments. However, 850 applicants were found to be bogus.
The counsel for the civic body told the court that because of certain inevitable conditions, the process of relocating illegal dairies was not completed.
Bhatia, however, counterargued that the civic agency is dilly dallying the relocation process and just covering up its failures.
In 2002, while hearing a public interest litigation filed by the same NGO, the court had directed the MCD to relocate the dairies from urban areas in the city to tackle the menace of stray cattle.
