Ghaziabad: Hundreds of meat shop owners On Monday staged a protest after the district administration asked them to keep their shops closed until the direction by NGT for scientific disposal of waste and residual was complied with.
The meat shop owners led by Yaad Illahi Qureshi staged the protest at district headquarters in Ghaziabad demanding issuance of statutory licenses to them for carrying on the slaughter of cattle and sale of meat.
Upon a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by activist Mukesh Kumar, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had directed the officials of the Meerut, Hapur and Ghaziabad districts to ensure the disposal of meat waste in a scientific manner by meat traders.
In a meeting convened on February 9 at Meerut, UP Chief Secretary Arvind Narayan Mishra had directed the officials of all the three districts to ensure a strict compliance of the orders of NGT with immediate effect.
Ghaziabad district administration, police and Nagar Nigam ordered 186 meat shop owners to keep their shops closed until the direction by NGT for scientific disposal of waste and residual are complied with.
In their memorandum submitted to the District Magistrate, Qureshi said "we have demanded that the administration should provide statutory licenses to all those meat shop owners who have fulfilled the meat waste disposal norms of NGT and a centralised slaughter house must also be established in the district so that individual butchering of cattle by meat sellers and the menace of meat waste disposal can be checked.
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