Mumbai Police prohibit transportation of cattle to curb unfold of lumpy pores and skin illness

PTI, Sep 19, 2022, 10:04 AM IST

The Mumbai Police have prohibited the transportation of cattle within the metropolis with a purpose to stop the unfold of lumpy pores and skin illness.

The police issued an order to this impact on September 14 and it’ll stay in drive until October 13, an official stated on Sunday.

Anyone discovered violating the order shall be penalised, he stated.

The realm beneath the Mumbai Police commissionerate is said as ”managed space” for lumpy pores and skin illness, the order stated.

It’s forbidden to deliver cattle out of the locations the place they’re being raised. There’s a prohibition on transporting bovine animals to market locations or exhibition centres, the order stated.

In addition to cattle, the transportation of any form of fodder, grass or tools which got here involved with the lumpy pores and skin disease-affected bovine animals is prohibited, it stated. The lumpy pores and skin illness is a contagious viral illness that impacts cattle and causes fever, nodules on the pores and skin and also can result in demise.

Hundreds of cattle have died because of the illness in additional than eight states together with Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra.