RFID puts brakes on cattle nuisance

Intensifying its drive towards farm animals nuisance at the streets, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has higher the installation of Radio Frequency Identification Data (RFID) tags in cows. Since it all started tagging the cows on May 10, it has fixed 950 tags in 25 days. By affixing 70 tags in the first week of the drive itself, the civic body objectives to make the streets of Ahmedabad cow-free by the top of this year.

AMC has accumulated Rs 17.7 lakh wonderful in 25 days from farm animals homeowners who let their farm animals free at the streets. The drive to make the streets cow-free used to be intensified after a cow killed a 60-year-old guy in Vatva on May 11.

The collection of farm animals below AMC’s jurisdiction is 50,000. Out of these, 27,000 farm animals are registered with the civic body. Moreover, of the full farm animals, 36.8 in keeping with cent of the farm animals in Gujarat comprises farm animals. Currently, the full farm animals in Ahmedabad district, as in keeping with the Census data of 2012 to be had with the Directorate of Animal Husbandry, is estimated to be 2,48,086.

Stray farm animals aren't included in Census. Naresh Rajput, head of Cattle Nuisance Control Department, mentioned, “We are in the procedure of putting in RFIDs in registered farm animals. We have shaped seven teams that can handle the seven zones and install RFIDs in farm animals. We purpose to finish the exercise in 15 months.” The value of putting in RFID is Rs 200, which the farm animals proprietor will pay to the AMC.

On Saturday, the CNCD seized seven free farm animals wandering past due at evening on Prahladnagar highway. The proprietor of the seven farm animals used to be recognized as Lalji Rabari, a resident of Karnavati Board Society in Prahladnagar. An FIR used to be additionally lodged at Anandnagar police station, where Rabari confirmed that the captured farm animals belonged to him.

PSI Baloch mentioned, “It used to be a joint operation by the police and the AMC. The CNCD group of workers had informed us upfront in regards to the operation, and once they stuck the farm animals, we filed an FIR towards the landlord.”

Vijay Parsana, proprietor of Parsana Health Centre, mentioned, “The exercise undertaken by AMC is praiseworthy. As proprietor of five cows, I need to attraction to all cow homeowners that they should now not let their farm animals free and harbour best as many farm animals as they may be able to have the funds for to regard them respectfully.”

Kaushik Shah, a resident of Ambawadi, mentioned, “The tags are just right however simply tagging them gained’t assist. The AMC should put surveillance teams around the town, particularly in cattle-prone spaces, to make certain that the farm animals homeowners do not allow them to free once more.”

Nayan Shah, a resident of Ambawadi, mentioned, “The tags are just right however simply tagging them gained’t assist. The AMC should put surveillance teams around the town and close to the cattle-prone spaces to make certain that the farm animals homeowners do not allow them to free once more. More than the cows, it’s the grime and cow dung that poses an enormous risk to well being and lifestyles, and AMC must do something positive about it.”

How will RFID assist?

The Radio Frequency Identification with an built in distinctive id number, will allow the CNCD to track the movement of the bovines, how time and again it has been captured previously and the details of its homeowners. The knowledge will assist the CNCD identify errant homeowners and take punitive motion towards them.