Lok Sabha Question No. 2438 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-10
Subject: Pandemic Fund Project
Ministry: FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING
Asked by: Smt. Kamlesh Jangde, Shri Naba Charan Majhi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

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

ADMITTED QUESTION NO. 2438 TO BE ANSWERED ON 10 TH  DECEMBER, 2024

## PANDEMIC FUND PROJECT

2438.   SMT. KAMLESH JANGDE: SHRI NABA CHARAN MAJHI:

## Will the Minister of FISHERIES ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING मत्स्यपालन , पशुपालन और डेयरी

be pleased to State:

- (a) the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  strengthen  India's  pandemic  response  preparedness under the Pandemic Fund Project;
- (b) the manner in which the said initiative is likely to help reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases spreading from animals to human and the funds allocated therefor; and
- (c) the  details  of  the  number  of  people  provided  assistance  by  the  Government  in  Chhattisgarh under the Pandemic Fund Project?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) and (b) The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying has launched the G-20 Pandemic Fund Project on 'Animal Health Security Strengthening in India for Pandemic Preparedness and Response' with a grant of 25 million USD on 25th October 2024. The major interventions under  the  proposal  are  strengthening  and  integrating  disease  surveillance  and  early  warning system, upgrading, and expanding the laboratory network, improving the inter-operable data systems  and  building  capacity  for  data  analytics  for  risk  analysis  and  risk  communication, strengthening health security for transboundary  animal diseases as well  as  zoonotic diseases and India's role in regional cooperation through cross border collaboration.
- Additionally,  following  steps  have  been  taken  to  strengthen  India's  pandemic  preparedness  and response:
- i. Department supports States/UTs under National Animal Disease Control Programme (NADCP) for  vaccination  against  Foot  &  Mouth  Disease  (FMD),  Brucellosis,  PPR  and  CSF  including serosurveillance and seromonitoring of the diseases.  Rs 99.17 crore, 4.36 crore, 18.40 crore, 0.61 crore  vaccine  doses  have  been  administered  against  for  FMD,  Brucellosis,  PPR  and  CSF respectively.
- ii. Under  the  component  of  Assistance  to  States  for  Control  of  Animal  Disease  (ASCAD), Department  supports  States/UTs  in  regard  to  capacity  building  of  State  Biological  Production

Units  and  Disease  Diagnostic  Laboratories,  surveillance  and  monitoring  of  livestock  diseases, Research & Innovation and Training with continuous veterinary education.

- iii. Additionally, financial support has been provided to States/UTs under ASCAD for the prevention and  control  of  zoonotic  diseases,  including  emergent  and  re-emergent  diseases.  Rs.  20401.25 lakhs and Rs. 7382.58 lakhs has been released under ASCAD during FY 2023-24 and 2024-25 respectively.

(c ) Pandemic Fund Project has been launched on 25 th October 2024 only. Further, the benefits under the Pandemic Fund Project is not directly provided to the farmers, however all the farmers involved in animal husbandry sector across the country including Chhattisgarh will be indirectly benefitting from the project.

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