One pilot project each for the dairy and the poultry-based enterprises will be started in the area under purview of the Rath Development Agency. Common facility centres will also be developed for these two types of activity. Women self help groups will also be formed in the said area and assistance will be provided for goat rearing to such groups. loans will be provided through the cooperative department to such groups taking up goat-rearing, said chief minister Harish Rawat while chairing a meeting of the agency at the Bijapur guest house here on Monday.
It was stated in the meeting that women self help groups will be formed for goat-rearing in the area under RDA purview. These groups will be provided loan through the cooperative department for goat-rearing. The interest on such loans by women SHGs for goat-rearing will be borne by the state government, directed the chief minister.
Members of the committees linked with the agency will be able to make use of the planned common facility centres for dairy, poultry and other such activities in Uttarakhand. The State Government will develop these common facility centres which will provide a range of facilities including the services of a veterinary doctor, functioning of a collection centre, fodder store and facilities for pasture development also slated to be made available here. This will enable committee members access more facilities at lower cost, it was claimed. The chief minister further directed officials to get work started as early as can be, on one pilot project each in dairy and poultry segments. Such a model could also prove to be useful in enhancing the livelihoods of the local communities and villagers, he opined.
Addressing officials, the chief minister also directed that the boxes required be made available to agency-linked committee members for the purpose of apiculture (beekeeping). Directing that women self help groups be formed for goat-rearing in the Rath area, the chief minister said 10 goats each will be provided to such groups.
Srinagar MlA Ganesh Godiyal of the Congress, adviser to CM, Ranjeet Singh Rawat, principal secretary Manisha Panwar, other officials and RDA members were also present at the meeting.