Uttar Pradesh Cabinet clears funds for cow conservation

In its first meeting after the Lok Sabha polls, the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Friday approved a corpus for cow conservation and relevant infrastructure, including shelters. It gave its nod to the Uttar Pradesh Gau Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan Kosh Niyamawali, 2019.
“Because of the mechanization of agriculture and lack of any use of cattle in the field, they are being abandoned by their owners. Moreover, these stray cattle further lead to an increase in the population of stray animals…” read an official statement by the state government.
Though the decision to set up a corpus for construction of cow shelters and their upkeep was taken in January this year, detailed rules could not be finalized following the election notification.

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The cabinet said the corpus will be raised through donations, state, and central governments, government institutions, individuals or industrial houses, NGOs and charitable institutions, besides 2 percent from ‘mandi’ cess, 0.5 percent of the annual excise revenue and 0.5 percent of the annual toll tax.

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