Department of Animal husbandry & Dairying (DAHD) & Department of Rural Development (DoRD) sign an MoU for Leveraging SHG platform for rural economic growth.
The two Secretaries Atul Chaturvedi, Secretary, Department of Animal husbandry and Dairying and N.N. Sinha, Secretary, Department of Rural Development signed the MoU at Krishi Bhawan in the presence of Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying and Giriraj Singh, Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj.
The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying is giving employment and entrepreneurship opportunities to the farming community through different interventions and flagship programs like AHIDF, DIDF and NADCP, claimed PIB.
Also, the Government has approved implementation of a Special Livestock Sector Package consisting of several activities by revising and realigning various components of following existing schemes in order to have focused development of animal husbandry and dairying across the country for next 5 years starting from 2021-22.
As per the MoU, it has also decided to use the services of the members of the SHGs as livestock resource persons and primary service provider through a new accredited model named as “A-HELP” (Accredited Agent for Health and Extension of Livestock Production).
This model will be implemented across the country by using the existing cadre developed under DAY-NRLM for livestock (Pashusakhis) by providing further training and accreditation as A-HELP workers.