Rane has been conspicuously silent and refused to take on the ruling BJP on issues such as Regional Plan and SEZs in the Assembly, where attacks were mounted by the lone Congress MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco, helped by independent MLA Vijai Sardesai. While Rane allowed the treasury benches to escape on crucial issues such as casinos and mining, he instead waxed eloquent on a discussion on his fringe question about the measures the government was taking to curb the stray cattle menace. Rane, criticized the action of the government of appointing the Corporation of the City of Panaji as a nodal agency to gather the cattle expressing his concern because, he said, that stray cattle on the roads are leading to many accidents.
Parsekar said that they had handed an automatic hydraulic lift truck to the CCP to pick up stray cattle and now it was mulling on whether it should hire some 10 able-bodied men to physically handle stray cattle from the roads at night. Parsekar’s also said that that the government had already notified the Goa Stray Cattle Management Scheme, 2013.
Rane wanted to know whether the Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services Department had any records of cattle population in the State during from 2012 till date and the plans of the Government to take care of stray cattle with details.
Parsekar informed that as per Livestock Census 2012 (Provisional figures), privately owned Cattle are – 92,560, stray cattle are 7,362 amounting to a total of 99,922 animals.
