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Revised Livestock Health and Disease Control Program (LHDCP)

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March 06, 2025

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The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has today approved the Revision of Livestock Health and Disease Control Programme (LHDCP).

Livestock Health and Disease Control Program (LHDCP)
  • Launched in - 2022
  • Aim - To assist in disease control, boost vaccination coverage, entail more mobile vet units and ensure affordable medicines for animals.
  • Developed by - Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
  • Nodal Ministry - Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
  • Funding - It is a centrally sponsored scheme.
  • Diseases Covered - Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), Brucellosis, Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), Classical Swine Fever (CSF), Lumpy Skin Disease, Anthrax, Rabies, and others.
  • Components - The scheme has 3 components namely
    • National Animal Disease Control Programme (NADCP),
    • Livestock Health and Disease Control (LH&DC) and
    • Pashu Aushadhi.
  • LH&DC – It has 3 sub-components
    • Critical Animal Disease Control Programme (CADCP),
    • Establishment and Strengthening of existing Veterinary Hospitals and Dispensaries -Mobile Veterinary Unit (ESVHD-MVU) and
    • Assistance to States for Control of Animal Diseases (ASCAD).
  • Pashu Aushadhi Kendras – It is a new component added to the LHDCP scheme.
    • Run by - Cooperative societies and Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samriddhi Kendras (PMKSK).
  • To provide good quality and affordable generic veterinary medicine and incentive for sale of medicines under Pashu Aushadhi component.
  • It will also sell ethnoveterinary medicines, based on traditional beliefs and indigenous knowledge and practices, to treat animal diseases.
  • The Scheme also supports
    • Door-step delivery of livestock health care through the subcomponents of Mobile Veterinary Units (ESVHD-MVU) and
    • Improving availability of generic veterinary medicine- Pashu Aushadhi through network of PM-Kisan Samriddhi Kendra and Cooperative Societies.

References

  1. The Indian Express | Pashu Aushadhi Kendras
  2. The Hindu | Pashu Aushadhi Kendras
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