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Gujarat enacted laws to ban slaughter of cow and her progeny in accordance with Article - 48, Highest Judicature of the country declared these Acts as Ultra Vires, interpreting the Act against the intention, as declared in the constituent assembly. This has resulted in unlimited slaughter of cow and progent and mounting meat export by construction of mechanised slaughter houses sponsered by Government aid and creating shortage of milk and milk product and acute shortage of draught power. It was in 1946 that the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in the wing of Animal Husbandary of the Agricultural Ministry, recommended a plan to encourage Gośālās and Pinjārūpoles, being the fountain head of milk and draught power and recommended a plan to constitute statewise federation of Gosātās and pinjārāpoles. There were about 3600 Major Gosātas and Pinjarāpoles in the country and the plan was recommended to co-ordinate and streamline the activities for preservation and development of cow and cattle which were the primary source for milk and draught power in the country.
A Go-samvardhana council is constituted with the minister of Agriculture as Chairman and Animal Husbandary Commissioner as a member secretary and prominent Gosāta workers from N.G.O'S members to be nominated every three years, with power to allot small doles as Grants to Gosālas & pinjārūpoles. But this is just an eyewash and a drop in ocean to solve the basic problem of cow protection and development of progeny since the slaughter of best milking cows & progeny continues unabetedly resulting in colossal decline of the cattle wealth in the country which will be seen from the following figures quoted in a publication issue by the Animal Welfare Board of India on the report, Prepared by Central Leather Institute of Madras.
400
AVAILABILITY OF CATTLE PER 1000 PEOPLE IN OUR COUNTRY YEAR :
CATTLE 1951
430 1961 1981
278 1991
202 2001
116 (expected) 2011
020 (expected) ROLE OF AGRICULTURE Agriculture in India has two fold purposes – (1) Feeding the growing populations of the country till eternity and supplying raw materials for basic necessaries of life, (2) Providing livelihood and subsistence to the crores of rural population constituing the largest self-exployed sector. These two functions of agriculture are mutually complimentary and inalienable from each other, importance
Arhat Vacana, Oct. 99
| SR No. | 526544 |
| Book Title | Arhat Vachan 1999 10 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Anupam Jain |
| Publisher | Kundkund Gyanpith Indore |
| Publication Year | 1999 |
| Total Pages | 92 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Arhat Vachan, & India |
| File Size | 5 MB |