New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has initiated steps to make a technologically equipped slaughterhouse for pigs, which also includes a scientific waste disposal facility to prevent groundwater pollution.A meeting was recently held to identify a location, prepare the project plan, and ensure time-bound construction.“We have some sites, earlier transferred by the DDA, and one of them will be used. There was a long-pending demand for developing the slaughterhouse as their slaughter is not allowed at the existing facility in Ghazipur,” said Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh.In the absence of an authorised slaughterhouse for pigs, the chances of illegal slaughter was high. Without a scientific system for disposing the waste, the remains are frequently mixed with garbage and eventually end up at landfill sites, posing potential health hazards. The only operational slaughterhouse in Ghazipur is used for goats, sheep and buffaloes. The corporation earlier attempted to establish a slaughterhouse for pigs in 2018, but the plan was shelved following resistance from residents of Rani Khera.“A 10-acre plot was identified for the purpose, and the project was also incorporated in the budget proposals for 2021–22 of the erstwhile North Corporation. It was decided that the project would be executed on a public-private partnership (PPP) basis,” an official said.The corporation is now trying to identify a site located away from residential colonies.
