Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday directed the Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal and the other senior officers of the Animal Husbandry Department to carry out steps regarding prevention of the disease.
Presiding over a meeting over the issue with the officers concerned, Khattar said, “We have to work in mission mode to fight this disease like we had done before during the Covid pandemic.” He directed the Chief Secretary that all the available vaccination of this disease should be procured immediately as per the requirement of the state and the animals across the state should be immediately vaccinated.
During the meeting, Khattar directed the Chief Secretary to monitor every day the status of containing the spread of lumpy skin disease. Kaushal asked to immediately hold a meeting of all the District Deputy Commissioners, Superintendents of Police and the officers of the Animal Husbandry Department to carry out steps for prevention of the disease. The Chief Minister has directed the officers of Animal Husbandry Department to work under the planned strategy to fight with the disease. “We have to work in mission mode to fight this disease like we had done during the Covid pandemic. The number of vaccines available in the market should be bought immediately and should be given to infected animals across the state,” he added.
The Chief Minister directed the officers of the Animal Husbandry Department that the work of vaccination to prevent lumpy skin disease should be carried out expeditiously in the state. The doses that have been provided so far should be administered immediately. He said that the Animal Husbandry Department should first do rapid vaccination in those districts where the affected animals are large in number. After this, vaccination should be done in other districts also. The Chief Minister said that he himself will hold a conversation with the Union Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister regarding the vaccination and will put up the request of providing more vaccines at the earliest. The Chief Minister has directed the Animal Husbandry Department to get involved in the vaccination process to immediately control the spread of disease.
Khattar said that lack of cleanliness and infected animals are the main reasons for the spread of this disease. In such a situation, special attention should be paid to cleanliness by all the livestock owners. Along with this, the infected animals should be isolated and separated from other animals immediately. The movement of animals from one state to another should be restricted. He emphasized that the district administration should carry out the work of digging deep pits for burying the carcasses of animals that died due to lumpy skin disease so that the disease does not spread to other healthy animals.
The CM directed the Animal Husbandry Department to conduct monitoring at the micro level. He said that the data of the infected animals should be updated daily. Apart from this, the data of the animals that are dead due to lumpy skin disease should also be updated immediately. He said that gaushalas should also be monitored and the animals affected should be isolated and separated from other animals in the gaushalas. If there is any problem in carrying out these efforts, immediate help should be sought from the Deputy Commissioner.