SWABI: Due to absence of slaughterhouses in Topi, Razar and Chota Lahor tehsils here, the butchers are using roadsides, shops and edges of drains for the purpose, polluting the environment.

In various areas, due to non-availability of slaughterhouses and lack of facilities, the number of animals slaughtered in open space is much higher than those in the slaughterhouses. The places where the butchers slaughter the animals are not properly cleaned, washed, and disinfected.

Usually, they slaughtered animals at edge of drains and threw the waste there which spread pollution and caused diseases.

Meanwhile, the butchers are openly violating the officially-fixed price list.

The consumers complained that the butchers were selling meat at Rs300 per kg instead of the officially fixed Rs70per kg. They lamented that the district administration had failed to take action against the butchers for overcharging.

Zarwali Khan of Maneri Bala said: “If a consumer demands implementation of the administration’s notified price list the butcher becomes angry, saying ‘go and buy meat form the shop where you will get the meat according to the price list.’

The official price list shows the price of beef is fixed at Rs270 but in the entire district not a single butcher upholds it. Similarly, the mutton price per kg is fixed at Rs600 per kg but the butchers are selling it at Rs700.

QUALITY EDUCATION: Women University Swabi Vice Chancellor Prof Khanzadi Fatima Khattak has directed the faculty to take all necessary steps to improve quality of academic and research programmes to promote higher education and capacity-building in research besides inculcating ethical and moral values in students.

She was speaking at a meeting of the academic council of the university.

Important decisions were made regarding examinations, admissions, accreditation of academic programmes of departments of computer science and law.

Published in Dawn, July 8th, 2017