Ensure transparency in sheep scheme: Talasani to officials

Hyderabad: Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav on Friday directed the officials to adopt for transparent methods in implementing the sheep rearing scheme.The Minister held a meeting with the officials at the Secretariat, in order to prepare modalities for the scheme and to purchase the sheep from other States.

The Minister directed the officials to take steps in recruiting 309 assistant veterinary surgeons in order to provide timely health care services to the cattle and to acquire adequate stocks of medicines. Srinivas Yadav said that Collector of the district will be a nodal officer while a three member committee including MRO, MPDO and Veterinary doctor will select the beneficiaries in 15 days from the villages.

He asked the officials to interact with the Yadavas comprising Gollas and Kurumas so as to enrol beneficiaries from the societies in all the villages. The beneficiaries should be 18-years-old. The team will collect details of the beneficiaries including the number of sheep they have, Aadhaar and family details. 50 per cent of the beneficiaries will be selected on a lottery basis this year and the rest will be selected next year, he said.

The official committee will collect 25 per cent of each sheep unit and the government will bear the 75 per cent as subsidy. The officials should take steps to grow “Stylo” type of grass and coordinate with horticulture department to grow fodder in their fruit gardens. Mobile veterinary van should be made available at each Assembly constituency to provide health services to the cattle, he added.