Under new MCD policy, no meat shops allowed within 150 metres of religious places in Delhi

The condition is mentioned in the policy for the grant of new or renewal of licenses to meat shops or meat processing units as passed by the MCD House on Tuesday.

New Delhi [India], November 1 (ANI): The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) House has passed a new policy that states the minimum distance between a meat shop and a religious place or a cremation ground should not be less than 150 metres.

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The condition is mentioned in the policy for the grant of new or renewal of licenses to meat shops or meat processing units as passed by the MCD House on Tuesday.

As per the policy, the minimum distance between the meat shop and religious places like temples, mosques, gurudwara and cremation grounds or burial grounds shall not be less than 150 meters, an official statement of the MCD said.

The condition of 150 meters distance from Masjid (Mosque) will be applicable in case of pork shop only, the statement added.

As many as 54 proposals were passed in the meeting of the MCD House meeting on Tuesday including the regularisation of 5,000 sanitation workers, the statement said.

A total of 58 proposals were presented in the MCD house, out of which, 54 proposals have been passed including the proposal to regularise 5,000 sanitation workers, deployment of DBC employees on the post and the proposal to send MCD School's principals to international universities like Oxford and Cambridge for better training.

Meanwhile, after the house on Tuesday, Mayor Shelly Oberoi addressed a press conference at MCD Headquarters along with Deputy Mayor Aaley Muhammad Iqbal and Leader of the House Mukesh Goyal.

Mayor Oberoi said, "In the house meeting, the Aam Aadmi Party's MCD Government has unanimously passed important proposals in the interest of the people of Delhi and the employees of the Corporation. All the proposals brought in the House will provide great relief to the people of Delhi and MCD employees."

Oberoi said that the proposal to deploy a parallel agency to strengthen the sanitation system of Delhi and eliminate the mountains of garbage has also passed in the house.

She said that in the meeting three proposals were postponed and one was rejected. All these proposals will be discussed and then passed. (ANI)