BIRD FLU

Culling to continue for two more days

 

COOCH BEHAR, Feb. 4: The culling drive in the avian flu affected areas in Cooch Behar will go on for two more days. Earlier, it was decided that the drive would be carried on till today. But, as the target is yet to be fulfilled the administration extended two days and it will go on till Friday, the Cooch Behar district magistrate, Mr Rajesh Kumar Sinha, said.

 

Till this evening about 20,000 birds were culled in the villages in Mathabhanga and Dinhata sub-divisions, the DM claimed. The scheduled target is 45,000.

 

In Daribash area where the villagers resisted the RRT members till yesterday the drive going on smoothly from this morning, the DM said. In Dinhata, the time for the drive was changed from today following local demand. The culling is being held here from the afternoon till 10 p.m.