<p>Order of the Tripura High Court in the matter of Adwitiya Chakrabarti Vs Union of India & Others dated 21/09/2022.</p> <p>Adwitiya Chakrabarti a law student filed a public interest petition in
After a fresh outbreak of avian flu in the West Tripura district of Mohanpur, 20 kilometres from Agartala, the state authorities have ordered a culling operation from today, at the same time announcing stringent measures to check import and movement of chicken and other birds to and within the state.
The Tripura Government today asked the Animal Husbandry Department to start culling operations in eight villages under west Tripura from tomorrow in wake of a fresh outbreak of bird flu. Animal Resource Department Commissioner U Venkateswarlu said that blood samples of affected chicks sent to the High Security Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Bhopal, tested positive.
Routine sampling of blood and faecal extracts from backyard poultry in Tripura has detected the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, infecting birds in a village, 130 km from the state capital Agartala. The virus was isolated from Kalachari village in Mohanpur block just before it started to cause largescale mortality among birds. The samples, that were picked up on April 16, were found to be positive with H5N1 by Bhopal's High Security Animal Disease Laboratory on April 19. However, the final notification of a new outbreak in Tripura was issued by the Centre only on Monday night.
A week after declaring Kamalpur subdivision avian flu- free zone, fresh outbreak of the deadly disease has been reported at Mohanpur and its adjacent villages in West Tripura district. The most affected areas were Kalacherra, Mantala, Bijoynagar, Mohinipur, Mohanpur, Ishanpur and Hejamar, close to Bangladesh. "The Bhopal-based High Security Animal Disease Laboratory confirmed the outbreak at Mohanpur where eight chicks died mysteriously recently', said U Vankeswarlu, State's principal secretary of Animal Resource Development (SRD) here on Tuesday.
Even as the Tripura Government was fighting bird flu menace, the fresh outbreak of the disease was reported from Sidhai Mohanpur area, about 25 km from here. The area falls under the Indo-Bangladesh border and incidents of death of chickens and a few other birds were being reported from the area. However, official confirmation of the dreaded avian disease was still awaited though sources in the Animal Husbandry Department have found the presence of H5N1 virus in the blood samples of the sick birds.
As parts of efforts to improve air connectivity in the Northeast, the government is upgrading 10 airports in the region at an estimated cost of Rs 50 crore, reports PTI. The North Eastern Council has entered into an MoU with the Airports Authority of India for funding of 10 airports in the ratio of 60:40, the government said in a report tabled in Parliament. Works on seven airports has since been completed and is continuing in three other airports. An amount of Rs 50 crore has been earmarked for ongoing upgradation works of airports in the region in the annual plan during 2007-08.
AGARTALA: No fresh positive case of avian flu was reported from anywhere other than Mohanpur area in Dhalai district, said Animal Resource Development (ARD) Minister Aghore Debbarma. The Minister said that the department had collected blood samples from different places till April 13 and sent the collected slides to Bhopal based High Security Animal Disease Laboratory for testing. "All the blood samples were tested negative', he said here on Wednesday. Debbarma said that blood slides collected from six different places would be sent to the laboratory for testing on Thursday.
The Tripura Government is continuing the surveillance operations throughout the State even though no fresh cases of bird flu have been detected after conclusion of the culling operations in Kamalpur subdivision of Dhallai district yesterday. This was stated by Tripura Animal Resource Minister Aghor Debbarma at a press meet at the State Secretariat here today. He said after culling of nearly 40,000 birds in Kamalpur, no fresh cases of Avian Influenza have been reported from any part of the state.
With a rangbwtang (necklace made of silver coins) round her neck, Koyati Reang, clad in the traditional attire of a Reang woman
