While taking a review meeting of the departments falling under her Ministry in the Assembly premises on Thursday, the State Minister for women welfare and child development, animal husbandry, sheep and goat farming, fodder and fodder area development Rekha Arya asked the officials to firm up concrete plans to ensure more and more number of people being benefitted with the projects the State Government is rolling out.
She instructed them to deploy one mobile veterinary in each of the blocks of Almora district to mark the animal medical day slated on April 29. An animal helpline number on the pattern of 108 should be made to help the people to contact the departments concerned in case their domestic animals are injured or fall sick. She made it clear that the medicines should be procured from the branded companies meant to treat the animals.
She instructed the officials to start fishery, poultry and goatery farming in Bhaisoda farm located in Almora district spread across 37 hectares. Just 7.5 hectares being used for growth of fodder, the rest of the lands should be used for other kinds of farming, she stressed. She said that the officials should make a list of the contractual employees of the farm and ensure supply of electricity and water to the farm.
To protect the stray cows, the minister asked for a DPR being prepared for the animal husbandry centre in each of the Assembly constituencies. Besides, funds must be provided for in the district plans and MlA local area development funds. If the plan is implemented the department might collect cow urine and cow dung to make organic fertilizers from them. The local women should also be roped in in such projects to help them earn on their own.
She made it clear that the schemes being run by the department must bring benefits for the mass of the people.
In an important move, the minister asked the officials to make a list of the employees with a note on the time they are posted in the accessible and the inaccessible areas. The transfers would be effected on this basis alone, she stressed.
The meeting was attended among others by the additional secretary Alok Shekhar Tiwari, director Dr SS Bisht, CEO UlDB Dr Kamal Singh, USWDB Dr Avinash Anand, additional director Dr Nayal and Dr Ashutosh.