A door-to-door animal vaccination programme to check any incidence of foot and mouth disease will be held as per the following schedule:
September 16 to 19: Karaikal and Nedungadu, September 20 to 23:
Neravy and Thennakudi; September 24 to 27: Tirupattinam and Kottucherry.
In a release issued here on Wednesday, K. Latha Mangeshkar, Joint Director of Animal Husbandry and Welfare Department, said that the vaccination would be taken up in the morning from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.
The release appealed to the livestock owners to avail themselves of the opportunity to fight against the disease.