Efforts to increase better veterinary services to minimise losses: Rupala
Efforts to increase the availability and accessibility of better veterinary health services have to be made to minimise economic losses due to animal diseases, Union Minister Parshottam Rupala said on Friday.
The Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying chaired the inter-session meeting of the Consultative Committee attached to his Ministry here.
Ministers of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Sanjeev Kumar Balyan and L Murugan, and members of the committee also attended the meeting.
The committee deliberated on various aspects of "strengthening of veterinary services through mobile units and implementation of vaccination programme in the country".
While chairing the meeting, Rupala said India has a vast resource of livestock and poultry, which play a vital role in improving the socio-economic conditions of rural masses.
Therefore, the department has to make deliberate efforts to increase the availability and accessibility of better veterinary health ..