The city administration has rejected the announcement of Rs 10 per liter increase in milk prices by the dairy farmers and directed on Monday crackdown against the people trying to challenge writ of the government and create agitation among masses.
“The crackdown will be carried out against the associations first who are trying to create unnecessary hullabaloo in the city,” Commissioner Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui said on Monday.
He asked the retailers to act upon the announcement or else be ready to face strict action. Siddiqui directed them to sell milk at official price of Rs70 per per liter.
“It is a serious matter. How can one challenge writ of the government so openly? Shops would be sealed, hefty fines would be charged, imprisonment would be made and buffaloes would be confiscated,” he detailed the mechanism.
Dairy farmers association had announced to increase Rs 10 per liter because of triple increase in prices of milk-increasing injections. The commissioner called it an absurd reason.
This should be noted that the Lahore High Court had banned such injections, though this decision is not effective for the city. However, dairy farmers of Bhense Colony have been using these dangerous and banned hormone injections of Boostin and Somatech to increase mulching yield of their cows and buffaloes; however, these harmful hormones are spreading fatal intestine diseases amongst the Karachiites.
The corrupt officials of livestock, food departments and district administration are fully aware of the open selling of these hormones in Cattle Colony, but they are sheltering the suppliers and sellers of these injections that have already been banned in Pakistan.
In Punjab, the provincial government is sealing the cattle pens and sending their owners in jail if they are found guilty of administrating Boostin and Somatech injections to their mulching animals; however, in Sindh the largest cattle colony of Karachi, Bhense Colony, injections of Boostin and Somatech are openly available for a price of Rs 500-600 per injection.
Now the milk sellers have illegally increased the rate of fresh milk by Rs 10 per liter on the plea that rates of Boostin and Somatech injections have been doubled in the local market.
The citizens have appealed to the chief justice of Sindh High Court to take suo motu notice of selling of Boostin and Somatechj and such other cattle hormone injections in Sindh province in the larger public interest.
