The Kurangu Salya Nivarana Samiti is gearing up to launch a series of agitations against the alleged laxity of the authorities in tackling stray monkey menace.
Samiti president P.P. Gopalakrishnan and secretary Babu Varghese said monkey fever outbreak had been reported from many parts of the district and four persons had died of the disease.
Municipal authorities had not taken any steps to deal with it. The authorities had drafted a Rs.36.5-lakh project to sterilise stray monkeys last year. It was yet to take off, Mr. Varghese said.
As per Forest Department statistics, there were 4,000 individual animals in the municipal area. The Sulthan Bathery sub-court had directed the authorities concerned in 2013 to relocate the simian population from the Municipal area in three months.
The authorities failed to do it effectively. Only a fraction of the population was taken away, Mr. Gopalakrishnan said.
The samiti would lay siege to the municipal office on Saturday.
Agitation would be intensified if no action was forthcoming, Mr. Gopalakrishnan said.
4,000 animals in municipal area, says Forest Department
Samiti to lay siege to municipal office tomorrow