Ahmedabad: The temples around the city's airport runway will now have to serve prasad to devotees in bags. For the Ahmedabad airport and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) officials will soon start approaching temples in the area to make them aware of the new norm.
The decision, aimed at checking monkey menace and bird hit incidents, was taken during the Airfield Environment Management Committee's ( AEMC) quarterly meeting on Monday. The meeting was attended by officials from the forest department, airport, Air Force, AMC, CISF and Camp Hanuman Mandir.
"We have begun the process of identifying temples around the airport and will soon write to them asking them to start serving prasad in bags. Last year, army officials served a notice to Camp Hanuman Mandir Trust over garbage disposal and feeding prasad to monkeys by devotees. The temple authorities then started serving prasad in bags. Similarly, we will ask all temples to strictly pack prasad in bags as the sweet inside attract monkeys and birds," said a senior airport official.
Forest officials said that morning walkers feeding birds and monkeys near the airport also add to the problem.
17/01/12 Times of India
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