Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Friday inaugurated the newly constructed office building of Deputy Director, Animal Husbandry, at Dharamshala. Built at Rs 3.21 crore, the building is equipped with improved facilities to facilitate cattle rearers of Kangra district.
The Chief Minister said the state government was committed to strengthen the rural economy. He said the price of milk has been increased by Rs 21 over the last two and a half years. In addition to this, the transportation subsidy on milk has been enhanced from Rs 1.50 to Rs 3 per litre. Farmers who transport milk by themselves to procurement centres located beyond a distance of two kms, were being provided a subsidy of Rs 2 per litre. These measures were playing significant role in benefitting livestock farmers.
He said a milk processing plant with a capacity of around 1.50 lakh litre milk was being set up at Dhaghwar in Kangra district, while the capacity of Duttnagar milk processing plant in Shimla district has also been increased.
He said due to the initiatives of the government, the MILKFED was being strengthened and was now procuring three lakh liters of milk per day in the state, resulting in a sharp increase as compared to 90,000 liters procured during the previous BJP government.
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Minister Chander Kumar, MLA Suresh Kumar, Chairman Wool Federation Manoj Thakur, Congress leaders Devinder Singh Jaggi and Ram Chander Pathania, Secretary, Animal Husbandry Ritesh Chauhan, Director AH, Dr Sanjeev Kumar Dhiman and other dignitaries were present on the occasion.
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