India, June 24 -- The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) once again begins the decade-long search for location to build an abattoir after chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday cancelled the proposed abattoir plan at Moshi near the pilgrimage town of Alandi.

PCMC has over 1,200 meat shops and some of its owners are left with no option but to slaughter animals at their places without ante-mortem inspection leaving untreated waste in the drainage after the civic administration shut its sole municipal slaughterhouse located near the Indira Gandhi Railway Overbridge in Pimpri in 2014.

With no local slaughterhouse, the shops are dependent on facilities in Pune city run by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the Khadki C...