To make the cow shelters self-sustaining and generate employment for the youth, the District Administration has initiated steps to produce wood from cow-dung and phenyl from cow’s urine.
This was stated by Rahul Jain, the District Collector while addressing a meeting of the District Goupalan evam Pashudhan Samvardhan Samiti.
The meeting held at the collectorate explored new ways to generate more funds in order to take better care of the cows that are in the cow shelters. Rahul Jain, the collector opined that 50 per cent of the expenses incurred in the goushalas can be collected from the public as donations. He also asked the representatives of the various goushalas to send in an estimate for the expenses and promised to get it sanctioned at the earliest.
When it was pointed out that some of the goushalas are facing drinking water problems he said that permission will be given to such shelters to dig bore-wells. The meeting also decided to give 50 per cent of the Rs 16 lakhs that was sanctioned to the goushala located at lal Tipara and the rest to the other goushalas.
The collector instructed the caretakers of the various goushalas to make proper arrangements for providing medicines to the cows on time.
He further asked them to make early arrangements for the proper supply of fodder in case of any drought like crisis. He asked them to identify those farmers who can assist in supplying fodder and begin negotiations at the earliest.
Dr OP Tripathi, the Deputy Director of the Veterinary Medical Department gave a detailed report about the various projects the department is undertaking for the welfare of cows.
The meeting was attended by Dr Anant Kumar, Deputy Director, Agriculture; Gyanedra Bhargava, official of the society; Vedpal Jha, Naresh Tyagi and Avanish Kumar among others.