Veterinary Officers’ Assn up in arms

Tribune News Service

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Jalandhar, September 18

Members of the Punjab State Veterinary Officer’s Association (PSVOA) today lodged a state-level agitation against irregularity in the Animal Husbandry Department and state government for not approving their demands.

The veterinary officer from Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Kapurthala and Nawanshehr gathered today to hold a protest in the city. While addressing the gathering, Dr Ashok Kumar Sharma said the state government was allegedly breaking the Indian Veterinary Council Act 1984, as the government has already announced major veterinary to minor veterinary. A notification has also been issued in this regard.

He said the state veterinary has been also disproving this notification with majority. Those veterinary officers, who have been shifted from rural development to animal husbandry, were getting four years step up scale delayed by two years as the ACR for the same has not been written.

Dr Sharma also demanded that only post graduate diploma holder doctors should be given the PG increments.

Dr Navdeep Singh Khinda said not even a single civil veterinary dispensary has been upgraded to hospital in the last nine years by the state government. They also demanded the appointment of registered veterinary officer in all dispensaries of the state for better services.