PIEGON DEATH IN SINGTAM IS A SERIOUS MATTER-DR D S TIWARI

SANJAY AGARWAL-RANGPO-25TH MAY11

State animal husbandry and veterinary service department has started the ectoparasiticidal spray programme at singtam bazaar after occurring the pigeon death in the area. seeing the proliferation of insects and other ecoparasites at the entire nests were the pigeons are living at singtam .a team of Para veterinarian from sirwani veterinary hospital are deputed for this work till the complete elimination of blood sucking ecoparasite supposed to be the main cause of alimenting pigeons dwelling at singtam.with the special support of Sikkim motors transporters association singtam president Mr. tinku adhikari,vice president Mr. Mohan lal rai,general secretary Mr. norden tshring tamang,office secretary Mr. bhaichung tamang,Sikkim bihari jagran munch singtam president Mr. pradeep Sharma and fire department singtam after taking permission from the three house named food godown singtam,trivedi store and choppel lepcha house cleaned all the areas used by pigeons for shelter .in singtam food godown the team cleaned second floor where pigeons in large number come daily to scattered grains. The floor seen empty, very old and mucky almost piled with pigeons faces. it was observed that pigeons while taking feeds use to be shaky and ruffled their feathers so parasites come down from their body in large numbers which was feel totally unhygienic for the human being who consumed such type of food grains. when dr d s tiwari joint director of the department raised the questioned regarding the matter with the food inspector Mr. karma bhutia Mr. bhutia asked that they has shown several times such type of sick and dead pigeons but due to lack of staff it was impossible to clean. After cleaning the all three houses the medicine was also sprayed at the roof and shelter of pigeon in the singtaam .dr d s tiwari talking to this correspondent asked that this type of work shall do regularly at singtam market for some days. The local residents feel to organise the mass awareness camp at singtam regarding the matter.