The Uttar Pradesh government is all set to start an ambulance service forcowssuffering from serious diseases, state development, animal husbandry and Fisheries minister Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary said.
The minister said 515 ambulances are ready for the scheme, probably the first in the country.
Under the scheme slated to begin by December, a call centre will be setupat Lucknow for receiving complaints, the minister stated.
He said the state’s breed improvement programme will get a boost with the provision of free high quality semen and embryo transplant technology.
The embryo transplant technology will virtually be a revolution in the state as it would convert even sterile cows into high milk yielding animals, the minister added.
The scheme would start as a pilot project in eight districts of the state, including Mathura, he said.
For the first time in the HISTORY of the state, theYogi Adityanathgovernment gave funds to cow shelters for keeping stray cattle. No previous government in the state took such a step, the minister added.