By OUR STAFF REPORTER
Dehradun, 3 Oct: The Animal Husbandry Statistics Division, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD), organised a briefing session for the newly engaged National Level Monitors (NLMs), here, today.
The programme was organised to interact with the State Animal Husbandry Department officers involved with different DAHD’s schemes, especially Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM), National Livestock Mission (NLM), National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD) and Livestock Health and Disease Control Programme (LHDCP).
This briefing session was a part of a weeklong field visit of the NLMs to oversee the implementation of projects at field level across the state. This session was organised to give a comprehensive understanding of the programmes and their objectives, enabling the NLMs to play a pivotal role in assessing the implementation of the schemes with its tone and tune of the scheme guidelines.
The session was chaired by Dr BVRC Purushottam, Principal Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry, Government of Uttarakhand, in the presence of VP Singh, Director, and Mukesh Dutt Sharma, Assistant Director, Animal Husbandry Statistics Division, DAHD, Govt of India. The State officers implementing the schemes RGM, NLM, NPDD and LHDCP made their presentations before NLMs on details of implementation including current status of the projects, output challenges, etc. After the session the NLMs will now move to field to assess the programme and see its performance and implementation. Once this assessment is over, the NLMs will submit a detail report to DAHD enabling and ensuring transparency, accountability and efficient implementation.
The session concluded with a vote of thanks proposed by Dr Neeraj Singhal, Director, Animal Husbandry Department, Government of Uttarakhand.
