After a gap of 17 months, the Mandya City Municipal Council (CMC), on Tuesday, has launched a drive to capture stray pigs in town. However, the drive faced resistance from pig rearers.
With stray pigs becoming a menace, the civic authority had conducted such drive on December 3, 2014.
In the wake of large-scale complaints of pig menace, the CMC has restarted the drive, said T.N. Narasimha Murthy, CMC Commissioner.
Speaking to The Hindu here, he said: “We have caught a good number of pigs from the vicinity of Labour Colony, Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences (MIMS) and at some other localities.”
Prohibited
According to a rough estimate, the town has about 4,500 pigs. The menace has been causing nuisance, besides posing a public health hazard.
Therefore, the district administration has prohibited stray pigs in public places in all 35 wards.
The civic authority had served notices to pig rearers, instructing them to shift their animals from the town. However, they failed to respond to notices. That has instigated the civic agency to hire pig catchers, another CMC officer said.
The workers, armed with nets, visited different parts in town, catching pigs and shifting them outside the town.
Environmental Engineer K.S. Sneha and others supervised the drive, which is likely to continue.
