Chief Minister Raghubar Das has mooted a university for animal husbandry and directed to initiate process for the same. Holding a review meeting of the Department on Friday, the CM also directed the officials to fill all the vacancies in the department as soon as possible.
He, on the occasion, promoted fishery and underlined the importance of attaching unemployed youth to it. The CM also stressed over the need to link the profession with market. “We have several tribal-dominated areas those are extremely backward. Our aim is to identify those areas and support as much as possible. We should link farming, horticulture and dairy together,” he said and added the reservoirs of the State should be developed in the lines of Chandil.
The CM directed the officials to promote dairy farmers and also to link women SHGs to it. He said that training centres continuing in various parts of the State through NDDB should be propagated more. The also told to identify villages in backward areas within 15 days and prepare work plan for improving breed of cows.
The CM also expressed worry over illegal trade of animals and directed DCs to work in that direction. At the same time he also talked about the need of ‘cattle hostel’ in villages where farmers can keep their herds.