After 58 years, AWBI shifts to Haryana

  • | Sunday | 11th February, 2018

More officials are expected to move to the new premises in the coming weeks.The Animal Welfare Board of India office has been shifted after 58 years from Chennai to Haryana. CHENNAI: Filmmakers will now have to travel to to Seekri village in Faridabad in Haryana to get an Animal Welfare Board of India AWBI ) certificate for their films.The secretary of the board issued an order in this regard on February 2, which was uploaded to the AWBI website on Friday.The order said all applications relating to court cases, RTIs, grievances, complaints, grant proposals, applications for pre-shoot permission/registration and no-objection certificatesmay be sent to the new address.AWBI sources said some officials had already been transferred to the new premises. When Rukmani Devi Arundale founded the organisation in the 1960s, the then Union government granted her permission to have the headquarters in Chennai.A proposal to shift the was sent to the Union ministry of environment and forests and climate change at least three years ago, which has been approved by the ministry now, said an official.The board has said that a regional centre will be formed in Chennai, which will function from the existing premises.The fate of five honorary members two animal welfare activists, a forest official, an official from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau , southern region and a member from the Censor Board in Tamil Nadu is hanging in the balance following the shift.One of the members said they had not received any official communication from the board about the shifting or termination of their membership.

CHENNAI: Filmmakers will now have to travel to to Seekri village in Faridabad in Haryana to get an Animal Welfare Board of India AWBI ) certificate for their films.The secretary of the board issued an order in this regard on February 2, which was uploaded to the AWBI website on Friday.The order said all applications relating to court cases, RTIs, grievances, complaints, grant proposals, applications for pre-shoot permission/registration and no-objection certificatesmay be sent to the new address.AWBI sources said some officials had already been transferred to the new premises. More officials are expected to move to the new premises in the coming weeks.The Animal Welfare Board of India office has been shifted after 58 years from Chennai to Haryana. When Rukmani Devi Arundale founded the organisation in the 1960s, the then Union government granted her permission to have the headquarters in Chennai.A proposal to shift the was sent to the Union ministry of environment and forests and climate change at least three years ago, which has been approved by the ministry now, said an official.The board has said that a regional centre will be formed in Chennai, which will function from the existing premises.The fate of five honorary members two animal welfare activists, a forest official, an official from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau , southern region and a member from the Censor Board in Tamil Nadu is hanging in the balance following the shift.One of the members said they had not received any official communication from the board about the shifting or termination of their membership.

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