The Haryana government has accepted the Ambala Sadar municipal council’s request to build a 21-acre dairy facility in Brahmin Majra hamlet.
According to authorities, the facility will be able to accommodate around 5,000 cattle, which will be relocated from at least 300 dairies inside the council’s boundaries.
According to Sandeep Solanki, executive officer of MC Sadar Zone, the project would cost 5.06 crore and the procedure to register the site under MC’s name will begin this week.
Locals have long demanded that dairies be relocated away from residential areas since most of them lack facilities for disposing of animal excrement, which spills into sewage lines and clogs huge drains.
However, the project has already been delayed for almost a decade, owing to a lack of available land. Because all of the dairies will be under one roof, the new facility will assist enhance cleanliness in the region. The local panchayat has also adopted a resolution on the subject.
Anil Vij, who represents the Cantonment seat in the state legislature, claimed that the contemporary dairy complex will include a veterinary hospital for free animal treatment, a biogas plant, a fodder storage, and a pond. “The budget has been approved, and a long-pending demand of the citizens will be met,” stated the minister.
As the Ambala Municipal Corporation accelerates the process of relocating livestock from over 250 dairies inside city boundaries to Kanwala or Katholi dairy complexes, small-scale farm owners are concerned.
According to Megha Ishu Goyal, councilor from Ward 9, such farmers have no way out because they have no other work options and cannot afford to relocate. “In 2004, they were not given plots in the complex, and MC had cautioned several of them about operating illegally. The city authority should investigate the situation or provide plots to them in other locations “She stated.
An MC team delivered notifications to four owners on Saturday with a two-day warning following a start-up seizure of animals from dairies that were not allowed any space, according to Mandeep Singh, sanitary inspector (city zone).
According to MC commissioner Dhirendra Khadgata, the dairies were granted land in the two complexes based on a 2004 survey. “There can be no re-survey, and those who remain cannot work inside MC boundaries,” he explained.