New Delhi, June 11 With the Ghazipur abattoir failing to meet Delhi's demand for meat, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to allocate 10 acres around the abattoir so that its capacity can be expanded to suit growing demands.
The announcement was made during a visit to the slaughterhouse by Mayor Arti Mehra and Leader of the House Subhash Arya. The leaders were there to take stock of progress on the abattoir and oversee the trial run of the system on Wednesday.
The abattoir currently has three sections ¿ Halaal, with a capacity of 3,000 animals per shift, Jhhatka with a capacity of 1,500 animals per shift, and buffalo for 500 animals per shift. The MCD plans to run the abattoir in three shifts to meet demand.
With a total capacity of 10,000 goats (5,000 in each shift) and 1,000 buffaloes, the abattoir will, however, be able to meet only 50 per cent of the Capital’s meat requirements — currently pegged at 20,000 goats a day.
The MCD plans to build the additional capacity on a build, operate and transfer basis. Construction will start as soon as the UP government allots land, MCD officials said.
Spread across 50 acres of land near the sanitary landfill site adjacent to the chicken and fish market on the outskirts of Delhi, the Ghazipur abattoir is the largest state-of-the-art abattoir in India, using advanced technology and internationally standard hygiene practices. “It has all the modern facilities, with equipment that operate under stringent hygienic conditions. Its success will ultimately benefit the butcher community,” Arya said.
The MCD is also trying to persuade the traditional butchers of the Idgah slaughterhouse into adopting ultra-modern technology being used at Ghazipur. The existing slaughterhouse at Idgah is more than 100 years old, located in a densely populated area on just seven acres of land.
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Comic Book Review: Abattoir
Initially credited to Darren Lynn Bousman, a writer/director in the Saw franchise, Radical Comics’ six-part mini-series Abattoir is a horror comic that lets you know exactly where it’s going by opening up on a bloody slaughter at a child’s birthday party. A hired clown’s fingers get sliced off with a weed eater, a burly neighbor gets a butcher knife across the mouth, the party’s birthday boy is found dead and bleeding at the foot of his rampaging father. Makes those birthday spankings look pretty innocuous, huh?
Once we get past this attention-grabbing opener, the scene shifts weeks later to Richard Ashwalt, an “almost former cop,” family man and would-be real estate salesman stuck with unloading the house where the birthday slayings took place.
Ashwalt is feeling pressure by his boss, not to mention his nagging wife, to sell the place, but he’s initially reluctant to immediately do so when a creepy geezer aptly named Jebediah Crone shows up wanting to buy the splatter flaked domicile for fifteen per cent above asking price.
Plagued by grisly dreams and visions of the murders, Richard is told the credulity straining ghost story of a boogeyman who buys up properties where someone has recently died — though to what nefarious purpose the storyteller can’t say. Based on the series’ title, though, you know the reason’s gotta be nasty.
A decent set-up, even if you don’t quite buy the real estate urban legend. As fleshed out by scripters Rob Levin and Troy Peters, the series’ protagonist is both flawed and sympathetic enough to make a believable witness/victim of the horrors still to come.
Though there are hints that there’s a history which explains his strained relationship with his wife, he's also shown in a caring interaction with his young daughter Claire. Given that this book opened on another seeming caring father, though, we can’t help wondering just how much Richard is gonna be effected by his involvement with Mr. Crone — especially after another character quotes the “all work and no play” adage made infamous in The Shining,
Once we get past this attention-grabbing opener, the scene shifts weeks later to Richard Ashwalt, an “almost former cop,” family man and would-be real estate salesman stuck with unloading the house where the birthday slayings took place.
Ashwalt is feeling pressure by his boss, not to mention his nagging wife, to sell the place, but he’s initially reluctant to immediately do so when a creepy geezer aptly named Jebediah Crone shows up wanting to buy the splatter flaked domicile for fifteen per cent above asking price.
Plagued by grisly dreams and visions of the murders, Richard is told the credulity straining ghost story of a boogeyman who buys up properties where someone has recently died — though to what nefarious purpose the storyteller can’t say. Based on the series’ title, though, you know the reason’s gotta be nasty.
A decent set-up, even if you don’t quite buy the real estate urban legend. As fleshed out by scripters Rob Levin and Troy Peters, the series’ protagonist is both flawed and sympathetic enough to make a believable witness/victim of the horrors still to come.
Though there are hints that there’s a history which explains his strained relationship with his wife, he's also shown in a caring interaction with his young daughter Claire. Given that this book opened on another seeming caring father, though, we can’t help wondering just how much Richard is gonna be effected by his involvement with Mr. Crone — especially after another character quotes the “all work and no play” adage made infamous in The Shining,
Abattoir
Place where animals are killed for food. Abattoir was originally the name of the public slaughterhouse established in Paris by a decree of Napoleon in 1818. An abattoir was first established in Britain in Edinburgh in 1851. In 1997, there were 488 abattoirs in the UK.
More than 700 million birds and 35 million pigs, cattle and sheep are killed each year in UK abattoirs. Various methods are used to stun animals prior to death, including electric shocks and gas chambers. The industry is a major employer.
In 1994 more than 110,000 people were directly involved. Despite the BSE crisis, in 1997 the industry was still employing almost 100,000 people.
More than 700 million birds and 35 million pigs, cattle and sheep are killed each year in UK abattoirs. Various methods are used to stun animals prior to death, including electric shocks and gas chambers. The industry is a major employer.
In 1994 more than 110,000 people were directly involved. Despite the BSE crisis, in 1997 the industry was still employing almost 100,000 people.
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