Lok Sabha Question No. 2631 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-16
Subject: National Digital Livestock Mission
Ministry: FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING
Asked by: Shri Devesh Shakya

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING

## MINISTRY OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2631 TO BE ANSWERED ON 16 TH  DECEMBER, 2025

## NATIONAL DIGITAL LIVESTOCK MISSION

## 2631.   SHRI DEVESH SHAKYA:

Will the Minister of FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING मत्स्यपालन , पशुपालन और डेयरी मंत्री be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the  Government  has  launched  the  National  Digital  Livestock  Mission  (NDLM)  for creating a digital database of livestock and related services in the country;
- (b) if so, the major objectives of this Mission and the present progress made under it;
- (c) whether the said Mission has been implemented in all States/Union Territories, particularly in the districts  of  Etah,  Kasganj,  Etawah,  Auraiya,  Mainpuri,  Kannauj  and  Aonla  (Bareilly)  in  Uttar Pradesh;
- (d) the number of livestock registered so far under NDLM;
- (e) the steps taken by the Government to include small dairy producers and livestock rearers; and
- (f) whether the Government proposes to integrate this Mission with schemes such as e-Gopala, the National Gokul Mission and the National Animal Disease Control Programme and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRYAND DAIRYING (SHRI RAJIV RANJAN SINGH ALIAS LALAN SINGH)

(a) to (f) The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India has launched the National Digital Livestock Mission (NDLM) for creating a digital database of livestock and related services across the country. Major objective of NDLM are to enhance the Productivity and Breed Improvement,  strengthen  Disease  Surveillance  and  Control,  to  create  a  system  enabling  related information to Livestock owners and the traceability in Livestock products. The system has been implemented in all States successfully including  the districts  of Etah, Kasganj,  Etawah, Auraiya, Mainpuri,  Kannauj  and  Aonla  (Bareilly)  in  Uttar  Pradesh.  All  the  Livestock  owners  and  their associated  animals  are  already  part  of  the  NDLM  system.  Number of Pashu Aadhaar issued and Registered in NDLM as on date are 35.96 crore. A detail note on NDLM functioning is placed at Annexure I .

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2631 FOR ANSWER ON 16.12.2025 ASKED BY SHRI DEVESH SHAKYA ON 'NATIONAL DIGITAL LIVESTOCK MISSION'

## DETAILED NOTE ON NATIONAL DIGITAL LIVESTOCK MISSION (NDLM) FUNCTIONING

The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India has launched the National Digital Livestock Mission (NDLM) for creating a digital database of livestock and related services across the country. In India most of the livestock is held by  small and marginal farmers and are scattered  across  all  villages  due  to  which  targeting  market  mechanisms  and  service  delivery mechanisms in India is much more challenging. Therefore, in order to tap the full potential of the sector and to help in planning schemes and programmes for the sector a technology enabled farmer centric digital ecosystem has been developed by the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD) under the project name 'Bharat Pashudhan'

2. A  Mobile  applications  as  well  as  web  interfaces  have  been  made  named  as, 'Bharat Pashudhan' an  Android  based  application,  available  on  Google  Playstore  for  the  use  of  field workforce for recording the field activities. In Bharat Pashudhan a unique ID in the form of 12 digit bar coded ear tag is being issued to all livestock animals. Utilizing this Tag ID as a primary key field workers record information from the field in  respect of  every  animal like , Animal registrations, Artificial  inseminations  and  all  breeding  activities,  Change  in  ownership,  Vaccinations,  Eprescriptions,  Ration  balancing,  Disease  reporting,  milk  recording,  etc.  The  system  has  been implemented in all States successfully including all the districts of Uttar Pradesh.
3. Statistical Highlights of Bharat Pashudhan as on date :
- Livestock Owners Registered 9.5 Crores
- Pashu Aadhar Registered 35.96 Crores
- Field Workers User IDs Issued 4 Lakhs
- Vaccination records entered in systems are 146.6 crores
- All type of transactional records available in Bharat Pashudhan 250 Crores
4. Major objective of NDLM are :
9. (i)  Breed Improvement : With the integrated systems it would be possible to create/manage breeding activities  for  achieving  the  best  quality  germplasm  that  is  appropriate  for  various  agroclimatic conditions of India.
10. (ii) Disease Monitoring and Control: In order to have an overview of Livestock animal disease status an integrated Disease monitoring and control system that can prevent, predict, respond and treat major diseases that affect animals is a part of this project.
11. (iii)  Product Traceability: With integration of Tag-IDs, geographical locations, processing facilities a fool proof traceability system for livestock products is being made as a part of NDLM involving all the  stakeholders.  The  traceability  aspect  will  provide  opportunities  for  branding  of  products, exploring new markets.
12. (iv) Farmer  centric  Ecosystem :  Primary  aim  is  to  empower  the  Farmers  by  providing  them information for fully utilizing Government facilities, schemes and avail the services required for the livestock.
13. (v) Open source Architecture and API enabled environment: This Database has been build up on open source architecture so that it can be integrated with any system. All stakeholder groups like Financing institutions, Insurance sector, private practitioners and other organizations working in this field can be integrated in this system for seamless information exchange across the sector.
5. Further,  one  of  the  objective  of  Bharat  Pashudhan  initiative  is  to  empower  farmers  with information about their animals, schemes and facilities available for them in Livestock sector. In order to fulfil this objective 1962 - Livestock owner app has been developed. This app is connected to

NDLM database for providing information to livestock owner about his/her animals registered and is also connected with DAHD website to provide latest information about Ministry ' s schemes/programmes available for the Livestock owners.

6. The programmes like Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM), NADCP, etc. are presently working on this platform and are very much a part of NDLM. The e-Gopala livestock owners application has been replaced by 1962 Livestock owner application as a part of NDLM initiative.

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