Ten veterinary hospitals without proper infrastructure: CAG
Archit Watts/TNS
Jammu, April 11
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has pointed towards the failure of the Animal Husbandry Department to provide sufficient infrastructure to 10 out of the 13 veterinary hospitals across the state.
In its audit report for the year ended March 31, 2010, the CAG stated that due to the lack of infrastructure and equipment in the hospitals, the symptoms of animal diseases like the foot and mouth disease, black quarter, foul duck cholera, anthrox, Rani-Khet disease had increased in the livestock and were proving fatal. “On being pointed out this fact, the department stated that the organisms usually undergo genetic re-assortment, which made the control over the diseases difficult,” it added.
The report said the Animal Husbandry Department also failed to clarify “why the vaccination of the entire susceptible livestock population could not be done in a phased manner so as to eradicate the diseases despite the fact that sufficient funds were made available to it under the Assistance to States for Control of Animal Diseases scheme”.
Besides, the foot and mouth disease vaccines worth Rs 13.43 lakh were destroyed due to the lack of a cold storage system in Baramulla, it added.
The report said only three hospitals were running from their own buildings. On the other hand, the officials concerned of various district hospitals stated that enough quantity of medicines was not supplied to them and thus problems were created for breeders, compelling them to go to the district headquarters to collect the medicines. However, the audit scrutiny revealed, “The reply was unacceptable, as the department had enough funds to purchase medicines”.
It said, “During an interaction with 68 breeders, it was observed that they did not get medicines even after they repeatedly visited the sheep extension centres, thus defeating the basic purpose of creating such extension centres”.
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