TIRUPATI: The cows housed in the ‘Sri Venkateswara Go Samrakshanasala', the dairy farm of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), are a beleaguered lot, dogged as they are by three major problems, viz., shrinking land, water shortage, and viral attack.
At its inception in 1956, the dairy farm had 400 acres to house 200 cows. In sharp contrast, it now has 1,100 animals and the land has shrunk to hardly 70 acres, thanks to the ‘magnanimity' of the TTD's successive chiefs in doling out chunks of land to educational institutions and housing colonies for employees.
Twenty acres of land has recently been alienated to develop yet another housing colony, leaving little moving space for the poor TTD animals.
While the tube wells have dried up, all the fifteen bore-wells but one have dried up. The TTD is considering moving the animals to the Hathiramji Mutt-owned landed property abutting Dalavai Cheruvu tank in Perumallapalle on the city outskirts, while plans are afoot to sink eight new bore-wells near the Cherlopalle-Srinivasa Mangapuram Road for dedicated water supply.
At its inception in 1956, the dairy farm had 400 acres to house 200 cows. In sharp contrast, it now has 1,100 animals and the land has shrunk to hardly 70 acres, thanks to the ‘magnanimity' of the TTD's successive chiefs in doling out chunks of land to educational institutions and housing colonies for employees.
Twenty acres of land has recently been alienated to develop yet another housing colony, leaving little moving space for the poor TTD animals.
While the tube wells have dried up, all the fifteen bore-wells but one have dried up. The TTD is considering moving the animals to the Hathiramji Mutt-owned landed property abutting Dalavai Cheruvu tank in Perumallapalle on the city outskirts, while plans are afoot to sink eight new bore-wells near the Cherlopalle-Srinivasa Mangapuram Road for dedicated water supply.
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