India, July 29 -- Ahead of the annual Kanwar Yatra, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has ordered a crackdown on all illegal and unlicensed meat shops operating along the Kanwar routes and near the 308 Kanwar camps in Delhi, said senior municipal officials.

The order, seen by HT, comes in the wake of a meeting on Kanwar Yatra preparations chaired by Delhi Cabinet minister Kapil Mishra on July 25. The office memorandum, dated June 27 and issued by MCD additional commissioner Arun Mishra, states, "During the said meeting, it was deliberated that Karwar Camps shall primarily be established at 308 original sites besides some new sites, as the case may be, and will become fully operational from July 30, the first day of Shravana month ...