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7/27/2019 Govt Mulling to Amend Rules on Filming of Animals: AWBI ignoring its own Notification - Naresh Kadyan

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Govt mulling to amend rules on filming of

animalsNaresh Kadyan.

The government is considering amending rules to check the trend of filmmakers bypassingnorms by filming animals like lions and tigers abroad and then getting approval for showing

these movies in India. As per a central government notification, bears, monkeys, tigers,

panthers, lions and bulls should not be exhibited or trained as performing animals in India.

However, to escape rules which disallow shooting scenes involving these animals, filmmakers

move to countries where these conditions do not apply, sources said. Scenes featuring these

animals in films have managed to get clearance from the Central Board of Film Certification

(CBFC) on the basis that they had not been shot in India, they said. Senior officials told PTI

that the I&B ministry has already written to the Law ministry seeking its opinion in this

regard. As per the rules, films which feature animals have to get a No Objection Certificate

(NOC) from the Animal Welfare Board of India. Officials said the I&B ministry has acted after

AWBI and animal rights activists raised the matter. AWBI chairman R M Kharb had written to

I&B Minister Manish Tewari saying CBFC should inform filmmakers that films shot abroad will

also be governed by Performing Animals Rules. "I request you to please stop letting

filmmakers, whether of serials or advertisement or films, make a mockery of India's

Performing Animal Rules on the pretext that scenes have been shot abroad," Kharb said in his

letter to Tewari. The AWBI asked the I&B ministry that appropriate directions be issued to

ensure that cinematography which uses performing animals and films shot abroad must

undergo the same scrutiny as films shot in India. A senior official said though the ministry had

approached the Law ministry on the issue, it would also speak to other stakeholders. The

ministry would also hold consultations with filmmakers before it decides to carry out any

changes in the rules, the official said.

My questions before AWBI:

1. When exhibition of six species lion, tiger, panther, bear, monkey and bulls arebanned in India then how and why AWBI approving the proposals?

2. There is no question on the shooting, whether taken place in Indian terrotary ofAbroad, display and exhibition is clear cutt banned in India, then AWBI granting

permission?

3. The UN affiliated OIPAwww.oipa.orgchapter in India strongly opposing thesepermission of AWBI for exhibition of ban species, The following minutes confirmed

that some animal seen was found unnatural by the AWBI then why they failed totake legal action against all offenders.

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