Lok Sabha Question No. 1788 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-03-08
Subject: Shortage of Basic Resources in Veterinary Colleges
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: YOGI ADITYANATH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

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

UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 1788

TO BE ANSWERED   ON 8 TH  MARCH,2016

## SHORTAGE OF BASIC RESOURCES IN VETERINARY COLLEGES

1788 . SHRI YOGI ADITYA NATH:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ षि एवं ककसान कल्याण मंत्री be pleased to state:

- (a) whether there is a shortage of basic facilities and human resources in many veterinary colleges and institutions in various States of the country?
- (b) if so details thereof; and
- (c)  the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  provide  basic  facilities  and  human  resources  in  these veterinary colleges and institutions?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

(Dr. SANJEEV KUMAR BALYAN)

- (a)  &  (b)  As  per  periodic  inspection  carried  out  by  the  Veterinary  Council  of  India  as  provided under  Section  19  of  the  Indian  Veterinary  Council  Act,  1984,  following  Veterinary  Institutions, included in the First Schedule to the Act, were found to be deficient in terms of teaching and nonteaching manpower and infrastructure facilities such as laboratory equipment, certain parameters of Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex (TVCC) and Instructional Livestock Farm Complex (ILFC) etc.-
- a) College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Bhubaneswar, Odhisa
- b) Ranchi College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Ranchi, Jharkhand
- c) College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh
- d) College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Mhow, Madhya Pradesh
- e) College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh
- f)  College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Junagadh, Gujarat
- g) College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Navsari, Gujarat
- h) Dr. G.C. Negi College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh.

- i) College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pookote, Kerala
- j) Rajiv Gandhi College of Veterinary & Animal Husbandry at R.K. Nagar, Agartala (Tripura)
- k) Veterinary College, Shimoga, Karnataka,
- l) Veterinary College, Hasan, Karnataka
- m) Veterinary College, Bidar, Karnataka
- n) College of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Udgir, Maharshtra
- o) Nagpur Veterinary College, Nagpur, Maharashtra
- p) College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Parbhani, Maharashtra
- q) KNP College of Veterinary Science, Shirval, Satara, Maharashtra
- r) College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Durg, Chhattisgarh
- s) College of Veterinary Science, Korutla, Telangana
- t) College of Veterinary Sciences, Navania, Udaipur, Rajasthan
- u) College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, pantnagar, Uttarakhand

(c)  Veterinary  Education  is  a  state  subject  and  setting  up  of  Veterinary      Colleges/Institutions  is under  the  domain  of  State/UTs  Government  to  meet  their  requirement  of  trained  veterinary manpower as per the availability of resources. The concerned State Governments and Universities are  responsible  for  providing  basic  facilities  and  human  resources  in  the  veterinary  institutions under  their  control.    Setting  up  of  Central  Veterinary  College/Institution  is  under  the  domain  of Indian  Council  of  Agricultural  Research  (ICAR).  ICAR  provides  assistance  to  the  Agricultural Universities including Veterinary Universities to plan and coordinate agricultural education in the country  through  the  implementation  of  Scheme,  'Strengthening  and  Development  of  Higher Agricultural  Education  in  India'.  Financial  support  is  given  mainly  for  students,  amenities  & facilities,  strengthening  of  infrastructures,  curriculum  delivery,  examination  system,  educational quality  and  reforms  comprising  accreditation,  evaluation,  human  resource  development  through faculty development, faculty exchange, scholarships and personality development, etc