Stray cattle to be tagged with RFID

  • | Saturday | 22nd September, 2018

Vadodara: The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) will take up extensive radio-frequency identification (RFID) tagging of cattle in the city to curb the stray cattle menace in the city. For now, the VMC is planning to install RFID tags on 5,000 bovines and will continue the process in the coming days. The VMC now plans to install RFID tags on all these animals and register their owners.The civic body is planning to procure the RFID tags with microchips from an agency in Delhi. The civic body had earlier done so in case of some stray cattle that it had impounded, but it now proposes to use the technology for all the stray cattle in the city.According to the proposal prepared by the civic body administration, the count in 2011 had revealed that there were 18,336 bovines in the city. The standing committee of the civic body cleared a proposal in this regard in its meeting on Thursday.The VMC has been eyeing to inject RFID tags with microchips in cattle in the city since quite some time now.

Vadodara: The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) will take up extensive radio-frequency identification (RFID) tagging of cattle in the city to curb the stray cattle menace in the city. The standing committee of the civic body cleared a proposal in this regard in its meeting on Thursday.The VMC has been eyeing to inject RFID tags with microchips in cattle in the city since quite some time now. The civic body had earlier done so in case of some stray cattle that it had impounded, but it now proposes to use the technology for all the stray cattle in the city.According to the proposal prepared by the civic body administration, the count in 2011 had revealed that there were 18,336 bovines in the city. The VMC now plans to install RFID tags on all these animals and register their owners.The civic body is planning to procure the RFID tags with microchips from an agency in Delhi. To install these, it is eyeing to rope in helper-cum-compounders on an outsourcing basis. For now, the VMC is planning to install RFID tags on 5,000 bovines and will continue the process in the coming days.

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