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| Stray animals give nightmares to Udhampur residents | | | SARITA JAMWAL
UDHAMPUR, July27- Stray animals squatting in the middle of the busy roads in busy Udhampur town are causing several problems for the people especially the vehicular traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway. Scattering mud, garbage and household waste all over the road, near Slathia chowk and number of other places in the city has become a routine problem for local residents and the Municipality failed to come up to the expectations of the residents.
With enormous increase in the population and number of vehicles on city roads, the traffic conditions, particularly in congested Gole Market Main Bazaar, Mukherjee Bazaar, Court Road Bus Stand Slathia Chowk areas and other localities in the city, are becoming worse day by day.
Talking to Early Times Raghav Sharma said that number of cows squatting on one side of the city roads is a common sight and cause serious and occasionally fatal road accidents, whereas the animals, sitting in the middle of the roads and streets impede the smooth flow of traffic. He said the street dogs create problems for the residents in almost the entire city and lack of preventive measures over a period of time has led to steep increase in the population of stray animals and the incidents of some dog bites are also reported time to time
Despite tall claims by Municipality and administration for the protection and welfare of these animals and the religious sentiments attached with some of the animals, there is no arrangement for keeping a check on the stray cattle, which are left to fend for themselves after they become ‘unproductive’.
The city residents feel that the issue of stray animals needs to be addressed at various levels in close coordination with NGOs, the traffic experts and civic administrators and first and foremost, adequate infrastructure, including spacious cattle ponds for housing stray animals has to be created to check the increasing menace
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