Our Correspondent Kohima, Aug. (EMN): At least six new rural slaughterhouses spread across six districts of Nagaland are all set for inauguration, the department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services (AH&VS) has informed. The Deputy Director of AH&VS department, Dr. Ilang Iheilung, told Eastern Mirror that construction of the abattoirs located in Niuland, Tseminyu, Pfutsero, Tizit, Asukuto and Kiphire, has been completed and ready to provide hygienic meat to the rural population. The official said that the department had set up the six rural slaughterhouses under the National Livestock Mission (NLM) on public-private partnership (PPP) mode with Centre-state funding pattern of 75:25. Though the construction, installation and other aspects are completed, he said the abattoirs could not be inaugurated on time due to the COVID pandemic and that the facilities are yet to be handed over to the district administration and the rural local bodies. Once the slaughterhouses are made