Agriculture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal has directed officials to construct ‘Gaushalas’ (Cow Shelters) in all the 90 development blocks of the State.
The Minister while issuing the directives in a review meeting of the Agriculture and livestock department here has also approved a sum of Rs 10 crore for the preliminary work for the construction of the ‘Gaushalas’ from the account of the State Mandi Board. Under the programme, many of the Agri based activities would also be taken up from the ‘Gaushalas’, he said.
The ‘Gaushalas’ would come up on 25 to 50 acres of land to be acquired from the State government in each of the 90 development blocks of the State, he said. ‘If the cow is saved, the country would be saved and the villages would progress’, Agrawal said.