Una gets first veterinary ambulance

Rajesh Sharma

UNA, NOVEMBER 30

Rural Development and Animal Husbandry Minister Virender Kanwar dedicated to the public the first veterinary ambulance at Thanakalan village in the district today. The ambulance, costing Rs 12 lakh, carries medicines and equipment and will enable veterinarians to reach out to remote areas. It also has an animal-lifting machine attached to it.

The minister said that in the first phase, three such ambulances were being launched in different districts of the state. The ambulance in Una district would operate two days each every week in Una, Bangana and Amb subdivisions.

Kanwar said that three tranquiliser guns had been made available to the District Animal Husbandry Department to sedate and transport ferocious stray cattle away from human habitations.

He said that in an effort to rehabilitate abandoned unproductive young cows, the state government would use the ‘artificial induction of milk’ technique as a pilot project on 100 animals in Bangana subdivision to make them productive for milk again. He added that Rs 4.5 lakh would be spent on the project.