FOR record, commuters find cattle roaming freely on  80-feet wide road in Karod. They stand still in the middle of the road. They sit in big numbers on road-dividers. They also dirty the places with their discharges .... !
However, factually, such scenes are available in other places as well in Bhopal. And the administration does not seem to have an appropriate response to this problem.
The norm is that every city should have its good share of gaushalas where the cattle are kept with proper care and dignity. For the stray cattle, there are cattle pounds where animals are deposited after having been captured by gangs of municipal employees meant to do the job. True, that system operates in Bhopal, too, but only to a limited effect.

The loosefooter feels that a greater seriousness needs to be applied to ensure that stray cattle -- or cattle even owned by licensed people -- do not obstruct traffic on roads and are lodges either in privately own guashalas of their owners, or deposited at the official cattle pounds. If this really an issue that needs to be discussed in such seriousness? -- some may tend to ask. To this question, the loosefooter responds by asserting that this issue cannot be trashed so casually.

For, in other words, when a modern city’s roads are  dotted in many places with cattle, then the impression the picture gives out is of a badly managed place. The loosefooter would never like to entertain such an epithet for his dear Bhopal.
Another angle that needs a serious attention is the fact that many cattle found roaming on busy streets are not by definition “stray”.

Means, they are owned by registered owners. This appears to be the factual detail of the cattle on Karod’s 80-feet wide road. For, most of the cattle on Kaord Road appeared to be well cared for, clean and healthy. Yet, their owners appear to let the animals loose on the road for whatever reasons.

Such a practice should never be acceptable to the civic authorities. They should ensure that all the legitimate  cattle-owners keep their cattle-herds in check and the
animals are taken for grazing etc at proper sites, and are led back into the officially designated gaushalas at the end of the day. On Karod road, however, cattle are seen to roam around the whole day. The loosefooter has picked up this issue for discussion with Karod 80-foot road as a specimen example. The point he wishes to make is that any city of Bhopal’s stature needs an appropriate policy and its implementation for handling of cattle.