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Make immediate arrangements for proper care of stray cows: Adityanath to officials

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Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the officials concerned to make immediate arrangements for proper care of stray cows as also clear the grazing grounds in different parts of the state from encroachments.

In a meeting with senior officials, the chief minister told them to set up a committee to consider measures for providing better shelter facilities for stray cows and directed chief secretary Anup Chanda Pandey to present recommendations in this regard in a week.

Adityanath said in case of encroachment on grazing land for cattle, immediate steps be taken for its removal and strict action be taken against the accused, according to an official release issued here Tuesday.

Besides asking officials to make 750 cows shelters set up at the Zilla Panchayat level functional, he directed them that proper fodder, shed and drinking facilities should be provided to the bovines both in the rural and urban areas, it said.

The chief minister said the state government has allotted Rs 10 crore to each of the 16 municipal corporations to arrange shelter for stray cows, while Rs 1.2 crore has been given to every district for setting up gaushalas.

Adityanath said funds for providing shelter for cows in 69 civic bodies have already been sanctioned and the relative amount has also been released, but, so far, work has been completed only in Bareilly and Lucknow municipal corporations.

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Lucknow | Golfer Jyoti Randhawa on Wednesday was arrested by the forest authorities in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahriach for alleged poaching charges in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve.

The Dudhwa Tiger reserve forest authorities have also seized a .22 rifle, a skin of wild boar, Range Finders and binoculars and a jungle fowl from Randhawa after he was arrested. Speaking on the arrest, Ramesh Pandey, field director at the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve said, “Jyoti Singh Randhawa and Mahesh Virajdar who accompanied him in the hunt have been arrested in a poaching case in Motipur range of Katerniaghat.”

 

The officer further added that interrogation and further legal action is being taken by the DFO (divisional forest officer) Katerniaghat and his team.” Jyoti Randhawa had been ranked in the top 100 in the World Golfing Ranking during the period of 2004 and 2009.

 

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