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Forget the rest of India, there are reports of Rodent infestations, Monkey barrels, Cow kines, Stray dogs kennels, & Rat packs in New Delhi President House. The animals are ubiquitous in all Indian cities–on the roads, street-corners, roofs, and traffic signals.
NEW DELHI (AP) – In a capital city where cows roam the streets and elephants plod along in the bus lanes, it’s no surprise to find government buildings overrun with monkeys.
But the officials who work there are fed up. They’ve been bitten, robbed and otherwise tormented by monkeys that ransack files, bring down power lines, screech at visitors and bang on office windows
Those enamored by Shining Bharat, or IncredibleIndia need to discover the real India. The India where Indians live, not the India exported via Bollywood to the homes and cinema houses of foreign lands.
…first time foreign visitors to New Delhi are shocked to witness animals that freely roam the streets, alongside traffic jams, modern expressways, flyovers and the world class metro. It is estimated that more than 50,000 cows and buffaloes crowd the roads along with armies’ of monkeys, pigs, stray dogs, camels and an occasional elephant, often causing chaos and accidents.
Traffic routinely comes to a halt on highways to allow animals to walk, sleep, defecate and procreate. Animals are sometimes injured, with stinking carcasses lying in the streets for days given lax municipal authorities.
It is unimaginable for those who have never visited India. It is incomprehensible for those who have not seen them in action. The rats, monkeys, and cows are everywhere in every Indian city. Yes they are omnipresent in the streets and in the offices. Priyanka Bhardwaj describes a typical scene in Delhi–monkeys being snarled by the security personnel, the revered cows roaming the streets. Priyanka prodigiously paints a picture where the offices are infested with rats. In typical Indian fashion, white rats are being introduced to chase away the black rats. Ostensibly the white rats are better because they don’t harm the paper files.
The monkey’s are considered god in India and Hindus don’t kill them. They are fed on certain days. Monkey’s have played havoc in the capital New Delhi and Indian government had to hire monkey catcher to get rid of menacing monkey’s . The menace had been unabated in New Delhi and expanded to other cities of India. Now a report from Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh province, says that Monkey have killed a child. Monkey menace had been there for quite some time, but no concrete action was taken by the authorities to contain it. Monkey menace claims one life in India, by Sanjay Jha | November 6, 2008 at 01:02 am
- The courts have been waging a losing battle to rid Delhi roads of its animals. Apart from the usual lethargy in implementation, cows are revered by Hindus, the majority Indian population, so any strong arm action is a politically sensitive move.
- Dogs, meanwhile, proliferate as they are readily adopted by people, who do not have the space to keep them inside the house, but generally feed, pamper them and resist attempts by authorities to act.
- Such is the nuisance of monkeys in the national capital that a couple of langurs (bigger-sized white monkeys) continue to be leashed every day at the forecourts of the Rashtrapati Bhavan (President’s House) and the adjoining north and south blocks that house the prime minister, top administration and military offices.
- The langurs scare off the smaller Indian brown rhesus monkeys that are a menace in the area, biting officials, running away with secret files and entering the inner precincts of offices and president’s quarters.
- There are also reports that for some time stray dogs moved in and out of the highly protected residence of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
- Delhi alone is believed to have some 250 000 stray dogs, which are multiplying, intimidating, creating a nuisance, and biting people—infecting some with rabies. The number nationwide is estimated at around 25-8 million, according to the institute, although there has not been a count. Almost all the dogs are unvaccinated against rabies. (BMJ-Sanjay Kumar New Delhi _
India has a few blind spots. It does not know about the blind spots. There is no one to show her the blind spots. India, a youthful country overrun by youngsters eking out a subsistence living in the mirage of Bollywood is unable to look at itself with any semblance of realism. A star struck destitute and impecunious populace is proud of evanescent and unattainable trophies, venerating educational institutions it can only brag about (never get admitted to), Billionaires it can worship on statistic charts and luxuries that it can dream about.
NEW DELHI – Often it becomes apparent that India’s slow-to-move government agencies are caught in a time warp, struggling to catch up with the efficient private sector rooted in high-tech paperless functioning.
Take the case of the state of Haryana that adjoins Delhi and boasts of modern cities such as Chandigarh and Gurgaon, the hub of multinational, global outsourcing and software firms, operating out of state-of-the-art office spaces.
Saddled with reams of hard copy files, the Haryana police, which does not boast the best anti-crime record, has been grappling with rats devouring official records stored in usually dilapidated conditions.
To deal with file eating rodents, Haryana officials have arrived at a solution that may seem rather offbeat. Rather than spruce and clean up the place, the police are experimenting with white mice to take on the numerous black rats.
A senior police official in the Haryana city of Karnal was quoted as saying: “We have brought two white rats in on a trial basis. We have been told that white mice do not eat paper and cloth and are a deterrent for the black ones.”
The Haryana case follows the instances of the income tax office in New Delhi and the Delhi Development Authority (that deals with land allotment and real estate development), which are officially allowed to keep cats.
They have been doing so for years to keep mice from nibbling the mountains of stored paperwork in the face of the slow computerization of government offices.
This, of course is also a reflection of overall lax government functioning, whether in education, law and order, health or infrastructure such as roads and power, Though India has been plague-free from 1966, in 1994 there was an outbreak that affected Maharashtra and Gujarat. The city of Surat was badly impacted. Asia Times. Priyanka Bhardwaj is a journalist based in New Delhi. She can be reached at priyanka2508@yahoo.co.in
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Inebriated by blindness towards a the goal of superpower status this populace is unable to see the deep cavities within its boundaries. Young xenophobic India votes for those that are hegemonistic and autochthonous. Its leadership impervious of the needs of the penurious is focused on expansionism and destabilizing its neighbors. It behaves like crack-addicts overwhelmed by blind hatred for Buddhists (the real ones who are not Hindu), Dalits, Christians and Muslims–this leadership doesn’t have a clue of what the white world thinks of Indians– unavoidable supplicators at best and disposable computer coolies at worst!
Though the government has been one of the slowest to change and move with the times, there are other outfits battling rodents too. The state-owned Indian Railways, the biggest network in the world, has been fighting a losing battle with rats for a while now.
Over a million rats are estimated to infest the extremely dirty and busy four acre area of the New Delhi railway station, a contrast from the glitzy malls that sprinkle the city and the spotless metro train service.
The rodents have been causing a nuisance gnawing at cables, stores and even affecting signaling systems.
Earlier this month, following several failed attempts, desperate rail officials handed a contract of Rs1.7 million (US$33,000) to a private firm to exterminate the menace.
“All our earlier attempts failed miserably to control the rats. We have handed over the area to the firm and hope for a radical change in the next one month itself,” said a senior railway official. Asia Times. Priyanka Bhardwaj is a journalist based in New Delhi. She can be reached at priyanka2508@yahoo.co.in
It is unamaginable in any modern socieity to imagine the Supreme Court of the land intervening to resolve the issue of what to do with wild monkeys that visit the presidency!
Thousands of monkeys roam the capital, mostly around government offices, and are considered a public nuisance.
They have terrorised bureaucrats and in one instance even ripped up top secret defence documents.
But the monkeys are viewed as sacred by India’s Hindus, who often feed them, encouraging them to remain.
Snatching food
Delhi’s large population of stray monkeys has been a long-standing problem.
They are also a public menace in many residential neighbourhoods, where they snatch food from unsuspecting people, including children.
The fact that most Hindus view the monkeys as sacred has made it even harder for the authorities to get rid of the animals.
Now the Supreme Court has ordered that some 300 monkeys captured by animal handlers be freed in the forests of central India as part of an effort to rehabilitate them.
But already there are some who are opposing the move, saying the monkeys may find it difficult to adjust to life in the wild after having been raised in an urban environment. Delhi monkeys face forest future. Sanjoy Majumder BBC News, Delhi
The Times of India reported exactly that.
NEW DELHI: Where should the notorious simians, captured while frequenting the corridors of power in North Block and other government offices, be sent? Madhya Pradesh, said Supreme Court on Tuesday. Times of India. Delhi’s stray monkeys to head for MP. 11 Oct 2006, 0031 hrs IST, Dhananjay Mahapatra , TNN
When monkeys get aggressive, it’s usually because they think you have something to eat…If you are holding a snack, throw it in their direction, and they’ll stop bothering you. If you don’t have any food, hold out your open palms to show you’re not carrying a tasty treat or back away from the monkeys without showing fear. To diffuse the situation, don’t make eye contact or smile with your teeth showing-in the nonhuman primate world, these are almost always signs of aggression.
What if you can’t or won’t appease the monkeys with food? You can try to chase them off by shaking a stick at them, but they might get violent if cornered. If they don’t budge, bop ‘em on the head; visitors to temples in India sometimes carry a stick for just this reason. Primatologists will sometimes send a macaque warning signal called the open-mouth threat. Basically, form an “O” with your mouth, lean toward them with your body and head, and raise your eyebrows.
The Mayawati government realised the need for more concerted action only after a three-year-old boy fell off his terrace while desperately attempting to save himself from being mauled by a pack of monkeys last Saturday. State forest minister Fateh Bahadur Singh then promptly got his officials into action.
After chasing monkeys for nearly 48 hours, they had their first success on Tuesday afternoon when they trapped two monkeys.
“We have managed to trap two monkeys today and hope to get more over the next few days,” Lucknow’s divisional forest conservator CP Goel said.
Asked why his team of a dozen professional monkey catchers were unable to achieve more success, Goel pleaded: “Please don’t go by just numbers as monkey catching involves a strategy whereby we target the leader of each pack; once you have got the leader the rest of the pack disperses or runs for safety.”
According to him, “the trapped animals will be let loose in some nearby forest from where they would not be able to return to urban habitation.” Monkey menace claims one life in India, by Sanjay Jha | November 6, 2008 at 01:02 am
Hunger in India worse than Bukino Faso. Bottom in Asia. Worst in South Asia 
Indeed, although India is changing there is a long way to go. For example, first time foreign visitors to New Delhi are shocked to witness animals that freely roam the streets, alongside traffic jams, modern expressways, flyovers and the world class metro. It is estimated that more than 50,000 cows and buffaloes crowd the roads along with armies’ of monkeys, pigs, stray dogs, camels and an occasional elephant, often causing chaos and accidents.
Traffic routinely comes to a halt on highways to allow animals to walk, sleep, defecate and procreate. Animals are sometimes injured, with stinking carcasses lying in the streets for days given lax municipal authorities.
All of this is due to a rapidly spreading urban sprawl that devours erstwhile open, rural areas and villages where the animals once roamed freely.
The courts have been waging a losing battle to rid Delhi roads of its animals. Apart from the usual lethargy in implementation, cows are revered by Hindus, the majority Indian population, so any strong arm action is a politically sensitive move.
Dogs, meanwhile, proliferate as they are readily adopted by people, who do not have the space to keep them inside the house, but generally feed, pamper them and resist attempts by authorities to act.
Such is the nuisance of monkeys in the national capital that a couple of langurs (bigger-sized white monkeys) continue to be leashed every day at the forecourts of the Rashtrapati Bhavan (President’s House) and the adjoining north and south blocks that house the prime minister, top administration and military offices.
The langurs scare off the smaller Indian brown rhesus monkeys that are a menace in the area, biting officials, running away with secret files and entering the inner precincts of offices and president’s quarters.
There are also reports that for some time stray dogs moved in and out of the highly protected residence of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. There were fears that the strays could easily be fitted with remote bombs that could be set off inside the premises. Given brazen terror attacks, such as at Mumbai in November, anything is possible.
Fighting rats, of course, is another issue all together. Asia Times. Priyanka Bhardwaj is a journalist based in New Delhi. She can be reached at priyanka2508@yahoo.co.in
Plans to shun the monkeys from the cpaital seem to have failed.
NEW DELHI (AP) – In a capital city where cows roam the streets and elephants plod along in the bus lanes, it’s no surprise to find government buildings overrun with monkeys.
But the officials who work there are fed up. They’ve been bitten, robbed and otherwise tormented by monkeys that ransack files, bring down power lines, screech at visitors and bang on office windows.
The Supreme Court has stepped in, decreeing that New Delhi should be a monkey-free city after citizens filed a lawsuit demanding protection from the animals.
Easier said than done. A past initiative to scare off the army of Rhesus macaques with ultrahigh frequency loudspeakers didn’t work. A plan to deport them to distant regions has stalled because local governments refused to have them.
There’s an ape patrol of fierce-looking primates called langurs, led about on leashes by keepers. But whenever a langur looms, the pink-faced, two-foot-tall hooligans simply move elsewhere on government grounds.
“Please do not feed the monkeys,” implores a sign at Raisina Hill, the complex of colonnaded buildings that includes the president’s residence, Parliament, and Cabinet offices.
To no avail. Hindus believe that monkeys are manifestations of the monkey god, Hanuman, and worshippers come to Raisina Hill every Tuesday handing out bananas.
Last year the monkeys made their presence felt by hanging from window ledges and screeching at reporters arriving for a news conference with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld.
“It’s a big problem, especially in the evening,” says Defense Ministry spokesman Amitabha Chakrabarti. Monkeys break into offices at night and paw through the files looking for food, he said. “Those who work late hours have to be careful when it is dark.”
The city estimates at least 1,500 of New Delhi’s more than 5,000 macaques live on Raisina Hill.
In the latest effort, a monkey relocation initiative, 400 monkeys have been caught at Raisina Hill in the past year and moved to a holding area on the outskirts of New Delhi to await their return to forests in neighboring states, said Madan Thapliyal, a municipality spokesman.
But governments of those states have so far refused to take the furry exiles, saying they have more than enough of their own.
Maneka Gandhi, daughter-in-law of the late Indian leader Indira Gandhi and member of the governing party in the lower house of India’s Parliament, believes the monkeys should be left in peace.
Gandhi, an animal rights advocate, has already managed to halt a New Delhi program to spay and neuter stray dogs, saying it was cruel.
She claims that captured macaques, despite their holiness to Hindus, have been given to laboratories for experimentation or have died in their holding area cages. They were “relocated to monkey heaven,” she said.
The government says more than 200 monkeys have been relocated to Gandhi’s parliamentary district about 125 miles east of New Delhi. Gandhi denies it. “It’s all rubbish,” she said. “Not one monkey has been relocated to my constituency.”
Atul K. Gupta, of the Wildlife Institute of India, says macaques belong in forests, but deforestation and human settlement are driving them into cities in search of food.
Macaques are crafty pickpockets, know how to open refrigerators, and brazenly snatch lunch pails from government workers, he said. “They have learned the tricks of finding food in an urban environment.”
The answer, he said, is to save the forests. Otherwise, he says, “the problem will get worse.” Monkeys Terrorize India Workers, Tourists, October 27, 2005 – 3:03pm, By ANDREW WANG Associated Press Writer
