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GHMC loses 30 cr Abattoirs on trial run for 18 months
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Operations in new slaughter houses which are yet to be inaugurated in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits are running in full swing in the name of trial run for past 18 months. This has resulted in a loss of Rs 30 crore to the corporation.
Hyderabad: Operations in new slaughter houses which are yet to be inaugurated in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits are running in full swing in the name of trial run for past 18 months. This has resulted in a loss of Rs 30 crore to the corporation.
According to the guidelines of Operations and Maintenance department, the Health and Sanitation (H&S) wing should carry out trial runs for at least three months before handing them over to private agencies.
The construction of slaughter houses was completed in July 2014 and it has been carrying out operations in the name of trial run since then. Though the GHMC had entered into an agreement with various firms like Fresh N Frozen Food Tech, Al-Saad, and Al-Nafees Frozen Food Exports Pvt Ltd in 2014 it has not taken any steps to hand over the slaughter houses to them.
As per the agreement, Fresh N Frozen Food Tech Consortium would have to pay Rs 10.29 crore and Rs 9.29 crore to Amberpet and New Bhoiguda slaughter houses, Al-Saad will have to pay Rs 5.19 crore to Ramnathpura slaughter house and Al-Nafees Frozen Food Exports Pvt Ltd Rs 20.12 lakh to Gowlipura slaughter house.
While the GHMC claims that the inauguration was delayed because they were facing several legal glitches and objections from the local butchers on the grounds that the modernised slaughter houses could affect their livelihood.
The GHMC officials further claim that the civic body has only finished 90 per cent of the construction work and hence the delay in inaugurating it. Meanwhile, CPI (M) city secretary M Srinivas alleged that the corporation officials in connivance with ruling party leaders were delaying the inauguration of the abattoirs.
The Amberpet slaughter house has been built at a cost of Rs 22.15 crore, New Bhoiguda (Rs 14.92 crore), Ramnathpura (Rs 8.61 crore), Gowlipura (Rs 4.38 crore) and Chengicherla dry rendering plant with an outlay of Rs 19.17 crore. These abattoirs have modern facilities like cold storages and advanced meat cutting machines imported from Spain and Netherlands.
By:Maddy Deekshith
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