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RCC-SLAUGHTERHOUSE (with picture)
Rajshahi city to get modern slaughterhouse
RAJSHAHI, Sept 21, 2019 (BSS)- A modern slaughterhouse is going to be set
up in Rajshahi City aims at ensuring to supply safe meat side by side with
hygienic management of slaughterhouse wastages.
Department of Livestock Services (DLS) under its ‘Livestock and Dairy
Development Project (LDDP)’ will establish the house with an estimated cost
of around Taka 83 crore within a shortest possible time.
LDDP officials revealed this while sharing views on the issue with Mayor of
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) AHM Khairuzzaman Liton at latter’s city
bhaban office here yesterday evening, the RCC sources said today.
LDDP Director Kazi Washi Uddin apprised the mayor that the modern
slaughterhouse will be installed in Chattogram, Rajshahi and Khulna city
areas of the country with financial support of World Bank in the preliminary
stage.
“We already selected a site of one acre of land in Talaimary area for the
house in Rajshahi,” he said, adding that the implementation works will start
after signing memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the issue by end of this
current fiscal.
During his PowerPoint presentation, Dr Golam Rabbani, chief technical
coordinator of the project, illustrated the salient feature of the house
along with its implementation and operational process.
Upon successful implementation of the project, in one hand the environment
can be protected from the pollution and on the other the citizens will get
safe meat according to their requirement, he added.
In his remarks, Mayor Liton said time has come to strengthen the local
government institutions and enable them to combat the spread of different
types of diseases, particularly anthrax.
Both government and non-government organisations should come forward to
set up more modern slaughterhouses to protect the public health from various
diseases including the zoonotic ones, he said.
If modern slaughterhouses are set up in urban and rural areas, many biogas
plants could be established and the wastage of slaughterhouses could be
managed properly and hygienically, the mayor added.
Deputy Project Director Engineer Partha Prodeep Sarker and RCC Chief
Executive Officer Shawgatul Alam and its Chief Engineer Ashraful Haque were
present at the meeting.
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