Lumpy skin disease: Khattar directs officials to get cows, cattle vaccinated on priority

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Updated: Friday, August 19, 2022, 21:59 [IST]

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Chandigarh,
Aug
19:

Amid
the
spread
of
lumpy
skin
disease
in
Haryana,
Chief
Minister
Manohar
Lal
Khattar
on
Friday
directed
the
officials
to
work
on
a
mission
mode
“just
like
the
state
did
during
Covid
times”.
He
directed
Chief
Secretary
Sanjeev
Kaushal
to
procure
available
vaccination
and
inoculate
all
cows
and
cattle
on
a
war
footing,
besides
monitoring
the
situation
on
a
daily
basis.

Manohar Lal Khattar

The
minister
also
said
he
will
speak
with
the
Union
Minister
for
Fisheries,
Animal
Husbandry
and
Dairying
Parshottam
Rupala
and
seek
more
vaccine
doses
to
the
state
at
the
earliest.

Further,
he
directed
the
chief
secretary
to
hold
a
meeting
with
all
deputy
commissioners,
superintendents
of
police
and
the
officials
of
the
animal
husbandry
department
to
intensify
measures
to
prevent
the
disease.

He
ordered
the
officials
to
ensure
that
the
pits
dug
to
bury
carcasses
of
infected
animals
are
deep
enough
so
that
the
disease
does
not
spread,
and
also
closely
monitor
gaushalas.
“We
have
to
work
on
a
mission
mode
to
fight
this
disease
like
we
did
during
Covid,”
he
said.

State
Animal
Husbandry
and
Dairying
Minister
J
P
Dalal
connected
through
video
conferencing.
On
Thursday,
Opposition
Congress
had
attacked
the
BJP-led
dispensation
in
the
state
over
the
issue
of
lumpy
skin
disease,
with
party’s
senior
leader
Randeep
Singh
Surjewala
saying
though
the
cases
were
on
the
rise,
the
government
had
left
the
animals
to
their
own
fate.

The
Rajya
Sabha
MP
had
said
about
30,000
cows
in
2,354
villages
of
16
districts
had
been
infected
within
a
month
and
200
of
them
had
died.
Former
chief
minister
Bhupinder
Singh
Hooda,
who
is
also
Leader
of
the
Opposition
in
the
state,
had
alleged
that
the
government
had
not
shown
the
urgency
to
deal
with
the
issue.

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