PETA for ban on elephants during Dasara

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August 10, 2018

Mysuru, Aug 10: With just two months left, Karnataka’s flagship Dasara festival has run afoul of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, which has opposed elephants in the celebrations.

The organization will stage a dharna here on Thursday, calling for an end to the use of elephants in performances, including circuses and processions, and for tourist rides. This comes four days ahead of World Elephant Day. While officials have left the decision to the government, stakeholders in the tourism sector said Dasara is incomplete without elephants.

Dasara elephants treated well: DCF

Peta said elephants are used in the Vijayadashami procession during Mysuru Dasara.

Elephants are protected under Schedule I of The Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, and have been declared a national heritage animal by the central government. However, they are excluded from the list of animals banned from performances under Section 22 of The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.

BS Prashanth, president, Mysuru Travel Agents’ Association, told TOI Dasara has been celebrated in Mysuru for over 400 years and elephants play a major role. “For two months before Dasara, elephants are given special food not available in the forest. The treatment is good,” he added.

Siddaramappa, DCF (wildlife) said: “There is no cruelty meted out to Dasara elephants. It’s a 400-year-old tradition that elephants are part of Dasara festivities. These elephants are cared for well.”

Comments

Mohan
 - 
Friday, 10 Aug 2018

Do you think, keeping heavy weight things on elephant in noisy atmosphere is the way of treating well? ban domesticating elephants

Ramprasad
 - 
Friday, 10 Aug 2018

How they can tell elephants are treated well. If some people using DCF authorities for Dasara, can accept it..! then human rights violation people start making noises. Why people are not thinking about animals

Kumar
 - 
Friday, 10 Aug 2018

Good decision from PETA. Should ban elephants from all other states too. People are utilising elephants for thier personal use... for making money.. 

Danish
 - 
Friday, 10 Aug 2018

What rubbish DCF telling. Elephants are well treated it seems. DCF, you should realise one thing that elephants are not meant for these kind of activities. They are wild animals.. 

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Bengaluru, Jun 27: The Bengaluru Police Commissioner’s office on Infantry Road has been sealed after one of the staffers tested Covid-positive. It will remain shut from June 27 to 29. 

A senior police officer from the administrative department, in a media release, stated that almost the entire staff has been asked to work from home, while some have told to work from sub-divisions of DCP’s offices. 

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Only a few staffers have been asked to come to the police control room situated in the same building.

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Several migrant workers recently moved back to their respective states, villages with their families, while others, unable to move back for various reasons are stuck here facing several difficulties and plights. The relief work by ‘Team B Human’ has helped several families of migrant workers in these distressing times.

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