Make S'Belagola Non-Violence Centre: Jain Seer To State Govt

Expressing unhappiness over selling meat at circles and main roads of Shravanabelagola, the prominent Jain pilgrimage centre where 57-ft monolith statue of Bhagavan Bahubali is installed, Charukeerthi Panditacharya Bhattaraka Swamiji, head of Shravanabelagola Digambar Jain Mutt, Shravanabelagola, has urged the state government to declare Shravanabelagola as a non-violence centre.

- B R UDAYA KUMAR @Shravanabelagola

It is not fair to sacrifice animals and sell meat in a place where people following ahimsa visit, he said. Swamiji also said meat merchants have failed to shift their shops from the main road to the outskirts of the town or any other areas, despite the district authority issuing a series of notices to them through rural local bodies. Unfortunately, slaugh