Look who all are signing up to track ban on beef in Maharashtra

August 23, 2016 09:18

In May, Maharashtra's Department of Animal Husbandry issued a call for volunteers engaged in animal welfare activities on religious grounds to apply for "honorary" non-salaried position of welfare officers to serve as 'eyes to monitor the beef ban' imposed last year.

The advertisement stipulated that they have no political affiliations. Since then, a deluge of 2,388 applications has come rushing in, each recommended by district deputy commissioners of animal husbandry, with officers having "vouched for the sincerity and integrity of the applicant" and taking "responsibility for their conduct'.

Of these, 2,371 applications were officially admitted, awaiting scrutiny by the high court-appointed committee to monitor animal welfare laws.

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