Meat Shops Not Allowed In And Around These Areas Of Delhi, Municipal Corporation Passes New Policy

New Delhi: A new policy, by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has been passed with respect to meat shops in the national capital. The new policy has spoken about prohibition of meat shops in specific areas and that has to be followed by all.

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. 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.