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Have your milkman's cattle got their 12-digit unique identification numbers yet? No, they won't have to queue up to get an Aadhaar card.
The concept is similar, though, and the exercise unparalleled in its sheer scale.
Nearly one lakh technicians have started to fan out across the country since New Year's Day, armed with 50,000 tablets and a single mission — to affix a tag with a 12-digit unique identification number inside an ear of each of the staggering 88 million cows and buffaloes within this year.
The purpose, as per Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision, is to tag and track cattle so that they are vaccinated on time and scientific intervention is made available for better breeding and increasing milk production, doubling income of dairy farmers in the process by 2022.
The technicians have been trained to affix a polyurethane tag inside the ears of the cattle with a tag applicator. The tag is tamper-proof, cannot be opened by a wrench and is designed to last for years, official said.
Affixing the tag is a meticulous job, an official said, explaining that the yellow-coloured tag with two parts has to be fixed with the help of a tool in the centre of the ear lobe. The tag made from thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer, costing .`8 apiece, weighs just eight grams to cause minimum inconvenience to the animal, the official said.
Once the tag is fixed, the technician will use a tablet to update the number in an online database and also provide the cattle owner with an 'animal health card' recording the UID number, owner's details, status of periodic deworming and vaccinations of the animal as well as breeding details. This will help track the cattle along with all relevant details.
The Centre has set aside .`148 crore for procuring the tags, tag applicators, tablets and health cards, officials said.
It has also fixed targets for individual states to be completed within 2017. Uttar Pradesh has to affix tags on 14 lakh cattle every month, for instance, while Madhya Pradesh has to tag 7.5 lakh cattle a month.
India has nearly 41 million buffaloes and 47 million indigenous and cross-bred cows that produce milk. UP has the highest cattle population (16 million) in the country, followed by Madhya Pradesh (9 million), Rajasthan (8.4 million), Gujarat (6.2 million) and Andhra Pradesh (5.4 million).
88 Million Cows And Buffaloes Across India Will Get Their Own Version Of Aadhaar ID! - Indiatimes.com
The concept is similar, though, and the exercise unparalleled in its sheer scale.
Nearly one lakh technicians have started to fan out across the country since New Year's Day, armed with 50,000 tablets and a single mission — to affix a tag with a 12-digit unique identification number inside an ear of each of the staggering 88 million cows and buffaloes within this year.
The purpose, as per Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision, is to tag and track cattle so that they are vaccinated on time and scientific intervention is made available for better breeding and increasing milk production, doubling income of dairy farmers in the process by 2022.
The technicians have been trained to affix a polyurethane tag inside the ears of the cattle with a tag applicator. The tag is tamper-proof, cannot be opened by a wrench and is designed to last for years, official said.
Affixing the tag is a meticulous job, an official said, explaining that the yellow-coloured tag with two parts has to be fixed with the help of a tool in the centre of the ear lobe. The tag made from thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer, costing .`8 apiece, weighs just eight grams to cause minimum inconvenience to the animal, the official said.
Once the tag is fixed, the technician will use a tablet to update the number in an online database and also provide the cattle owner with an 'animal health card' recording the UID number, owner's details, status of periodic deworming and vaccinations of the animal as well as breeding details. This will help track the cattle along with all relevant details.
The Centre has set aside .`148 crore for procuring the tags, tag applicators, tablets and health cards, officials said.
It has also fixed targets for individual states to be completed within 2017. Uttar Pradesh has to affix tags on 14 lakh cattle every month, for instance, while Madhya Pradesh has to tag 7.5 lakh cattle a month.
India has nearly 41 million buffaloes and 47 million indigenous and cross-bred cows that produce milk. UP has the highest cattle population (16 million) in the country, followed by Madhya Pradesh (9 million), Rajasthan (8.4 million), Gujarat (6.2 million) and Andhra Pradesh (5.4 million).
88 Million Cows And Buffaloes Across India Will Get Their Own Version Of Aadhaar ID! - Indiatimes.com
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