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Prepare action plan against illegal abattoirs: Yogi to officials

He today ordered blanket ban on smuggling of cows

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Officials seal an illegal slaughterhouse in Allahabad (Photo: PTI)

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath Yogi has directed officials to prepare an action plan for closing down illegal abattoirs across the state even as he warned against laxity on the issue.
In the UP Vision Document, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in run up to the recently concluded 2017 state poll, had promised shutting down illegal and mechanised abattoirs in the state after coming to power.
While there are about 45 licensed mechanised slaughterhouses in UP operating in the private sector, the number of illegal abattoirs is estimated in several hundreds. The government has already rolled out the process of identifying units

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