The Hindu 14.11.2013
Corporation shoots down move to sell stray cattle in city
Councillors raised a demand to invite tenders to sell stray cattle in the city at the council meeting of the Thrissur Corporation here on Wednesday. The council, however, did not approve the demand.
Both ruling and opposition councillors alleged that stray cattle posed a threat to the safety of the public. Many incidents of cattle injuring people had come to light, they claimed. The councillors also opposed a demand by an animal welfare organisation to acquire two acres of land to shelter stray cattle.
However, the council gave the go-ahead to invite tenders to sell the cows and a bull being sheltered on the premises of the Anappara orphanage.
Many councillors also demanded that the corporation should begin disposing of inorganic waste at Lalur. The dumping of waste at Lalur has been stopped for the past 649 days following a protest by local people.
Former Chairman of the Sanding Committee (Health) C.S. Sreenivasan said the government had allotted Rs.1 crore for constructing a solid waste treatment plant. A solid waste plant at Lalur would solve the waste management crisis of the city to a large extent, he said.
The council approved the recommendations of the finance committee to hike building tax and movie ticket rates at theatres. While small houses have to pay a tax of Rs.8 per sq. ft, big houses will be charged Rs.15 per sq. ft.
