Livestock Logistics Control android based mobile application 07/08/2019 – Posted in: Daily News

LIVESTOCK LOGISTICS CONTROL MOBILE APPLICATION

 

The Dakshina Kannada district administration will release a mobile app called Livestock Logistics Control.

  • The mobile application will facilitate legal cattle transportation.
  • The app helps those legally transporting cattle to get authenticity for their transaction.
  • Livestock transportation may be for any purpose, including dairying, farming, or slaughtering and covers all major cattle.
  • Using the app would be helpful for genuine transporters to exhibit the details whenever the vehicle was subjected for checking by authorities concerned.
  • People may call the district control room on 1077 to inform the authorities about illegal cattle transportation.

 

Significance

  • Stop illegal livestock transportation.
  • Curb on illegal cattle transporters.
  • The app will certainly help reduce social tensions.
  • The app will also help the legal transporters of all major livestock go about their business without fear of being targeted by anyone.

 

How it will work?

  • The app allows any cattle transporter post authentication of the mobile through OTP, upload image of the vehicle, its registration plate number and cattle transported, in it.
  • With self-certification inbuilt into Livestock Logistics Control, this information will be relayed to officials of the animal husbandry department.
  • The officials, in turn, can provide this to authorities concerned for verification.

 

Background

The app has been developed on a request from legitimate cattle traders who were facing issues from vigilantes.

 

Source: The Hindu

 

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