State Government has gifted youth of Mahasamund district with Veterinary Polytechnic and Agriculture College.
Agriculture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal inaugurated veterinary polytechnic in Baronda Bazar, near Mahasamund district headquarters on Tuesday. On the occasion, he made an announcement that from next session, a new Agriculture College will be opened in Mahasamund district.
The Minister made this announcement on request of Mahasamund MlA Dr Vimal Chopra. He instructed officials concerned to earmark 100 acres of land and to send proposal for establishing college there. In his address to the inaugural programme, Agrawal told that veterninary polytechnic will be opened in Jagdalpur and Surajpur also.
Number of seats in these veterinary polytechnics will be increased from 60 to 100. This inaugural programme was presided over by Parliamentary Secretary for Women and Child Development Department Roopkumari Chaudhary. Agrawal said that Animal Husbandary is an integral part of agriculture. Since ancient times, agriculture and Animal Husbandary are correlated. With growing popularity of organic farming, importance of animal husbandry has also elevated.
In Chhattisgarh, a number of measures have been taken to conserve species of cow. Only a few states in the country have Kamdhenu University, and Chhattisgarh is one of them. He said that during the next three months, veterinary ambulances will be facilitated in all the districts. Soon a cow reserve will also be established in Bemetara, he said.
Agrawal said that the State government will be launching a new scheme for providing loans of upto `2 lakh for cow rearing trade. Under this scheme, subsidy of upto Rs 6 lakh will be provided. Meanwhile, Agriculture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal on Tuesday also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘’ Mudra Bank’’ will prove to be a boon to the small and petty businessmen.