City may get its first pet crematorium soon

Jaipur: The city might get its first pet crematorium in recent future. Following a proposal from an organisation, the Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) Greater is trying to find a suitable place within the city limits that can be used as a crematorium for pets.
“We have received a proposal and is working on it. Number of pets in Jaipur are increasing in number. It’s time to think about this noble idea. Space is a constraint. We are trying find a suitable place,” said Puneet Karnawat, the deputy mayor of JMC-Greater.
A few months back a Vaishali Nagar-based organisation has floated the idea of installing a burner somewhere in the city limits that would help in pet cremation. For this, the organisation has planned to procure the burner, designed by the researchers of IIT Rourkee, for Rs 5 lakh. “However, we need a space where we can install the burner. For this, we had sent a proposal to JMC Greater to give us a suitable space where we can set up the crematorium. All this while, JMC Greater is offering us space outside the city limits in the outskirts. But, for the convenient of pet parents we need it in the city. Else this project would be a big failure,” said Nipun Biyani, an animal nutritionist.
A group – led by Biyani - had started a mobile pet crematorium service in September 2016. However, despite a growing response among pet parents to use this service, group members were forced to stop the services for a couple of reasons.
“First, the mobile crematorium used to run on diesel and the price of diesel is escalating very fast making this service quite costly. Second, since it was a mobile service and we were cremating the pets at the doorsteps, there were objections from the neighbours. That is the reason we are looking for permanent space supported by the civic body,” added Biyani
As per the proposal the new burner would be economic for pet parents and environment friendly as it would need cow dung, instead of diesel, to run the cremation process. It would take about 30 to 40 minutes for a 10-kg body to turn into ashes in this type of burner.
“It would be cost effective also compared to our earlier venture. In a diesel burner we used to charge a minimum rate of Rs 2,000 depending on the size of the body. Here, the minimum rate would be Rs 1,200 to Rs 1,300,” Biyani signed off.
At present most pet owners either bury their pets inside their house compound or simply dumps them at any vacant land across the city.