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WILD ANIMALS IN ZOO USED AS GUINEA PIGS
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n what can be a gross illegality and violation of the Wildlife Protection Act, animals are abused and experimented upon without any control or sanction of the authority at the Veermata Jijabai Bhosle Udyan – Byculla Zoo and the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), if reports from the Plant and Animals Welfare Society (PAWS) – Mumbai are to be beleived. A letter supported with Right to Information (RTI) documents written by Sunish Subramanian Kunju (Secretary, PAWS-Mumbai), Abhijeet Ashok Rane (Chief Patron, PAWS-Mumbai), Nisha Subramanian Kunju and Chandramani Yadav to PM Narendra Modi, Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change Prakash Javadekar, S.S. Garbyal - Director General of Forest and Special Secretary, Ministry for Environment and Forests, has exposed that gross
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A REPORT SAYS THE ANIMALS IN THE BYCULLA ZOO ARE BEING USED TO CONDUCT STUDIES BY VETS WHO ARE NOT USED TO DO SUCH WORK. ANAESTHESIA ADMINISTERED TO THEM ARE XYLAZINE AND KETAMINE
the information received under the Right to Information Act, 2005. These studies and research and experiments are being conducted by researchers and veterinary students who have not been given permission for the same by Zoo management or any other department. No records have been kept of animals upon which studies and experiments have been conducted by researchers and veterinary students in PAWS-Mumbai RTI Document Pics Zoo and SGNP, despite being of Illegal experiments conducted proved that a “Sanjay Kumar on captive Tigers and Deers at Tripathi -- who is present Dy. Byculla Zoo and Borivli's Sanjay Supdt. (Vet) I/C of Mumbai Gandhi National Park. Zoo” and a “Kamal Kumar” have conducted studies and irregularities and violation of experiments on tigers and rules and regulations in the deers as proved by their thefunctioning of the Byculla Zoo. sis and dissertation. No “This Zoo needs your ur- records have been kept by the gent attention and action. An Zoo of the clinical studies and illegally study and research experiments conducted by and experiments was con- the above two “researchers ducted on captive Tigers and and veterinary students”. Deers at the zoo and SGNP. Continued on pg 9 « All this has been proved by
Project NAINA okayed Guv announces start of NAINA, a new smart city around Navi Mumbai airport By A Special Correspondent
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Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao
he state government is all set to develop a new city NAINA over an area of 600 sq km around the Navi Mumbai International Airport. Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao announced this in the joint session of the state legislature yesterday. He said, “Majority of the clearances required for the project have been received. The government has decided to build a new city called NAINA as a part of the smart city mission of the Centre, the state government wanted to develop 30 towns, focusing Continued on pg 2 «