Statesman News Service
MALDA, March 28: The central observer Mr V Kumar has instructed Mr NK Shit, deputy director, animal resources development department in Malda, to keep strict surveillance up to the fencing of Indo-Bangladesh border on the eastern side, which covers more than 5 km from the epicentre of fresh Bird Flu outbreak at the state-run poultry farm in English Bazaar.Speaking to this correspondent, Mr NK Shit, said that the order came when Mr Shit informed Mr Kumar that a large part of Bangladesh area had come under the 10 km radius of the state-run poultry farm on the eastern side.The district administration has planned to urge the Border Security Forces (BSF) to keep vigilance at the Indo-Bangladesh border so as to keep a check on the Bird Flu menace, in its routine meeting with them.The officials of Malda ARD today completed a two day disinfection programme in the Bird Flu affected zone including the English Bazaar town.The department officials will start collecting blood samples of the ailing birds within a radius of 10 km in English Bazaar and its adjoining areas as a post culling routine surveillance for three months.The officials and labourers engaged in culling and mopping up drive are still quarantined under the observation of a special medical team.“Till date no Bird Flu contamination has been reported among the quarantined officials and labourers”, Ms Arunima De, the Malda SDO, said today.The department is also planning on how they would monitor the areas to check poultry rearing and selling for the next three months.The district administration is now preparing a a final list of families whose poultry were culled and which are entitled to a compensation of Rs 500.The district had made spot payment to the families, whose birds were culled, as per government rate of Rs 10 for chicks, Rs 30 and Rs 40 for each chicken.
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