Scheme for Providing Employment Opportunities to Scheduled Castes by Establishing Livestock Units
Category: Agriculture,Rural & Environment
Level: State | State: Haryana

Details:
The scheme “Scheme for Providing Employment Opportunities to Scheduled Castes by Establishing Livestock Units” is implemented by the Department of Animal Husbandry &amp; Dairying, Government of Haryana. This is a credit-linked scheme with a primary objective of providing self-employment opportunities to Schedule castes, the unemployed persons will be assisted by way of establishing Dairy units, Piggery units, and Sheep/Goat units.
**Long-term objectives:**

  - To create self-employment opportunities for the Scheduled Castes families through animal husbandry activities.
  - To increase milk, wool, and meat production and overall productivity of livestock.
  - To up-gradate and develop valuable breeds/germplasm available in the State.
  - To increase per Capita milk availability in the state.

**Medium-term objectives:**

  - To provide gainful self-employment to the unemployed men/women of Scheduled Castes families.
  - To raise socio-economic status and to provide socio-economic security to Scheduled Castes Antyodaya families of Haryana.
  - To supplement the income of the families of the weaker sections.

**The department would assist the beneficiaries in establishing these units in the following ways:**

  - Sponsoring of loan applications to banks/financial institutions.
  - Purchase of animals, tagging, and issuance of Health certificates.
  - Providing Veterinary health and other facilities like free vaccination and management guidance etc.
  - Imparting 11 days of Dairy husbandry training at the concerned Sub Division/District Level in the State to the desirous persons.

Benefits:
Financial Assistance under the Scheme:
Establishment of Dairy units of 2/3 milch animals: 
50% subsidy on the cost of milch animals which has been availed as a loan for the purchase of these milch animals by the beneficiary for the establishment of dairy units of 2/3 milch animals;
Establishment of 10+1 Piggery units:
50% subsidy on the cost of livestock which has been availed as a loan by the beneficiary for the establishment of a 10+1 Piggery unit.
A maximum amount of ₹50,000/- will be provided as financial assistance in form of a subsidy.
Establishment of 15+1 Sheep/Goat units:
90% subsidy on the cost of livestock which has been availed as a loan by the beneficiary for establishment of 15+1 Sheep/Goat unit.
A maximum amount of ₹88,200/- will be provided as financial assistance in form of a subsidy.
Note 01:
 The subsidy will be provided three months after the purchase of livestock or disbursement of the Loan by the bank, whichever is later, and subject to verification of unit by the concerned veterinary surgeon.
Note 02:
 The unit should be financed through a loan from the bank/financial institution.
Note 03:
 The subsidy would be provided in the loan account of the beneficiary.
Financial Assistance for Insurance of Livestock Unit:
If any Livestock Insurance Scheme is operational by the Department or Haryana Livestock Development Board then the insurance of animals purchased for the establishment of unit is to be covered under that Scheme, wherever permissible.
However, if no Livestock Insurance Scheme is operational then the Beneficiary/Bank would have to arrange for the insurance of the animals at their own.

Eligibility Criteria:
1. The applicant should be of 18 to 55 years of age and a resident of Haryana.
   1. The applicant should belong to the Scheduled Caste community.
   1. The applicant must be unemployed (employment even in the private sector would bar an applicant from availing assistance under the Scheme).
   1. There will be no mandatory educational qualifications or training requirements.
   1. The applicant should have a space/shed for keeping animals.
   1. Any applicant who has earlier availed benefits under any Departmental Scheme for the establishment of a livestock unit would not be eligible for availing benefits under the Scheme.
   1. The applicant would have to submit a Self-Declaration for being unemployed and for undertaking to abide by other conditions as required under the Scheme.

**General Note:**

  - In case an applicant lives at a place other than where the animals are kept or intended to be kept. Then, the jurisdiction area will be the place where animals are kept or intended to be kept (Within state of Haryana only).
  - Cost of mulch animals has been fixed as per the recommendation of the Unit Cost Committee of National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) for the year 2019-20.
  - The cost of the animal as determined by the Veterinary Surgeon may be lower depending upon age, number of lactations, breed characteristics, weight, etc., and the assistance as a subsidy would be provided on this lower cost. However, the maximum permissible cost for a grant of assistance as a subsidy would not exceed the cost indicated against in the tables mentioned above.
  - The cost of Indigenous breeds of Red Sindhi, Tharparkar and Gir cows will be same as Sahiwal cow.
  - Only those breeding animals should be purchased which are ready to bred or in prime age of production.
  - Sexual maturity age in Female Goat &amp; Sheep is 8-12 months. While in the case of Male Goat &amp; Sheep, it is 11-12 months. So, female and male goat and Sheep should be purchased between 12-18 months of age.
  - Sexual maturity age in Sow is 8-9 months. While in the case of Boar, it is 9-10 months. So, the Boar and Sows should be purchased between 8-11 months of age.