Barely a few days after a Bill was passed in the State Assembly to control the stray cattle in the cities in Gujarat, protests by the cattle owners in the State prompted the ruling party to announce that the government would reconsider the Bill.
In the recent Assembly session, a Bill was passed by the State seeking to regulate stray cattle in urban areas.
The Bill was passed by a majority in the Assembly after a marathon debate in the house. Titled Gujarat Cattle Control (Keeping and Moving) in Urban Areas Bill, 2022, it is aimed at regulating stray cattle in Gujarat’s eight major cities – Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Gandhinagar, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar and Junagadh – which have municipal corporations, and 162 towns which have municipalities and are notified as urban areas.
