Monitoring of cattle burial grounds

Monitoring of cattle burial grounds

In pursuance of paragraph 30 of the joint Anti-Corruption Action Plan for 2021, approved by the head of the Veterinary Directorate of the Akimat of the North Kazakhstan region (hereinafter referred to as the Office) and the head of the Department of the Anti-Corruption Agency (Anti-Corruption Service) for the North Kazakhstan region, on August 4, 2021, monitoring, jointly with the public (Adaldyk alagy) of zones equipped for the burial of animal corpses.

The monitoring was attended by the head of the department of veterinary and sanitary measures of the Department — Tarakanova Natalya Evgenievna, chief specialist-lawyer of the administrative and legal department of the Department — Ashimov Azamat Sergazievich, acting director of the veterinary station of Akkayyn district — Kompanets Andrey Ilyich, representative of "Akayyn adaldyk alagy" — Ospanov Alen Zharkynovich.

During the trip, the monitoring group visited the cattle burial ground located on the territory of the Smirnovsky rural district of the Akkayyn region.

According to the register, there are 28 cattle burial grounds on the territory of Akkayyn district.

For reference: cattle burial (biothermal pit) — a place for long-term burial of the corpses of agricultural and domestic animals that died from an epizootic or slaughtered in order to prevent its spread. Burials with anthrax have a special status of protection and accounting.

In 2020, on behalf of the regional akim and in accordance with the approved Plan for the construction and reconstruction of cattle burial grounds in the North Kazakhstan region for 2020, in the territory of the Smirnovsky rural district (2 km from the village of Smirnovo), 1 cattle burial ground (biothermal pit) was reconstructed. For these purposes 12.0 million tenge was allocated from the district budget.

The work was carried out by LLP "AnimalStat" (Nur-Sultan).

The following construction and installation works have been carried out:

  • device of a concrete pit 10 meters deep
  • pit cover device
  • installation of a canopy and a fence over the biothermal pit
  • installation of a fence with a gate device
  • trench device
  • arrangement of access roads
  • full house

This facility complies with veterinary and sanitary requirements.

In order to preserve a safe epizootic situation in the region, the Department monitors the veterinary and sanitary state of cattle burial grounds.

In 2021, according to the approved Plan for the construction and reconstruction of cattle cemeteries for 2021, it is planned to build 2 cattle cemeteries in the Poltavka village of the Poltava rural district, in the Aralagash village of the Aralash rural district, as well as the reconstruction of 5 cattle cemeteries.

To date, the fencing of the cattle cemetery has been repaired in the village. Leninskoye, the district veterinary station carried out sanitary cleaning of all cattle burial grounds in the district.