RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, July 26: The morale of cattle smugglers is high in Jharkhand while the government bodies supposed to take proper care in the matter are in deep slumber giving entire responsibility for the security of bovine animals to police.
A police official informed this saying 12 bovine animals which were rescued from Tupunda on July 20 after sacrificing a 2018 batch sub inspector Sandhya Topno is yet to reach at Goshala as those run the Goshala are reluctant to accept the rescued bovine animals.
Officer-in-charge of Tupudana police station, Meera Singh, admitted the situation saying the rescued bovine animals have been handed over to villagers after accepting a declaration from them that they will take proper care of the bovine animals.
A police official at Dhurwa police station supported the situation. “Keeping vigil on the rescued cattle is difficult. Goshala people show reluctance in keeping rescued animals. Police give the rescued animal to villagers but keeping vigil on the cattle in villagers’ custody is difficult,” the official said.
Contacted president of Ranchi Goshala Nyas Samiti, Puneet Poddar, to know the factual position he directed the question to a senior member of the Samiti, Pramod Saraswat.
Saraswat denied the fact saying police did not take proper interest in sending the cows to us. “We never deny accepting rescued animals. In the Tupudana case, Kanhaiya Singh, who was officer-in-charge at the time when the cattle were rescued, had contacted me when I asked to get an order from a senior officer. After he was asked to report to the police line he did not contact me,” Saraswat said.
“Out of 26 Goshalas, as many as three Goshalas are in Ranchi and police can keep rescued cows at any one of the places. We still have 1100 bovine animals in three Goshalas and many of them are rescued,” Saraswat said.
Saraswat, however, shared the problem Goshala faces in keeping bovine animals.
“We are supposed to get Rs 100 per bovine animal to feed them but the process of getting the same is so cumbersome that it takes several months to get money,” Saraswat said.
Explaining the process, he said: “the Goshala management is expected to raise the demand before Gau Seva Aayog after due approval of deputy commissioner of the concerned district. The Aayog forwards the demand before the animal husbandry director, who forwards it to the department secretary. If the demand is more than Rs 5 lakh, the minister of the agriculture department is expected to give approval.”
Contacted its registrar Aparna Pandey for her comment on the matter, she parried reply saying a formal meeting is required to discuss the issue. She, however, did not give any certain time for the meeting saying she will inform but when she was not sure.
