Maharashtra to get first police museum in Mumbai
Mumbai, May 10: The Mumbai Police Commissioner's office, the Mumbai Police Foundation and Tata Trusts have signed a MoU for setting up Maharashtra's first police museum here, it was announced on Thursday.
Besides the police museum, the MoU will also embark on a project to conserve and archive historic police records of Mumbai Police which is among the oldest in the country at 154 years.
This would include restoration of artefacts, equipments of historical value to police history and others aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the city police and ensure social, cultural and public welfare.
A brainchild of Mumbai Police Commissioner D.D. Padsalgikar and his team, the Mumbai Police Foundation will generate awareness, internally through the archives project and externally through the Police Museum, on the rich history of the force that was founded in 1864.
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K'taka HC issues notice to BBMP as petitioner questions propriety of microchipping stray dogs
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has issued notice to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) regarding its Request for Proposal (RFP) for the vaccination of stray dogs and implanting microchips inside the bodies of the animals.
The notice was issued by the HC bench consisting of Justices Sunil Dutt Yadav and Venkatesh Naik T, after animal caregiver Priyadarshini S filed a public interest litigation (PIL) questioning the BBMP's Request for Proposal.
The petitioner has complained that the BBMP adopted a combined plan for vaccination of stray dogs using microchips that can be scanned. She has also said that, going by the context of the Animal Birth Control (ABC) rules, the primary mandate of the city corporation is to sterilize or vaccinate the dogs in order to control their population. The locals, however, are well aware that the BBMP is still struggling to set up legally mandated ABC surgical centres at all zones of the city.
The court has also been told that specific approval has not been obtained from the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) regarding the microchipping project on stray dogs, and that an invasive procedure at a large scale as planned by the BBMP is not be found anywhere else in the world. The dogs of Bengaluru cannot be treated as trial samples for an experimental combination of vaccination and microchipping, unless a pilot study has been conducted earlier under controlled conditions.
The petitioner objected to the BBMP desiring to have one RFP for various specialized vaccination procedures including microchipping, infrastructure and monitoring, pointing out that the procedures needed focused implementation plans. It would not be possible for the BBMP to get the same set of people to efficiently undertake all these tasks, without prior discussion and planning with AWBI-identified NGOs, she added.
The court was asked to quash and set aside the tender notification and also direct the respondents to follow the rules set by the ABC while issuing further tender notifications, with a declaration that the respondents are strictly adhering to the ABC rules.
