Bhubaneswar: The State Cabinet today approved four proposals worth Rs 1823 crore for the development of animal husbandry including ‘Goal for Management and Treatment of Animals’ (GOMATA) scheme.
The GOMATA scheme will be implemented in the state for 3 years from the current financial year (2024-25) with a total budget outlay of Rs 342.65 crore, Chief Secretary Manoj Ahuja said.
This scheme aims to benefit the livestock farmers of the State through delivery of Veterinary service at veterinary institutions and at farmers’ doorstep through treatment, vaccination, disease control and surveillance, he said.
The implementation of the scheme will facilitate phase wise vaccination of 2.5 crore and treatment of 1.30 crore livestock annually, he informed.
Similarly, the State Cabinet has also decided to implement another scheme named as “Prani Sampad Samruddhi Yojana (PSSY)” with a total budget outlay of Rs 1031.19 crore for 5 years (2024-25 to 2028-29) to enhance meat and eggs production, he said.
This sub-scheme aims at benefiting 3,73,928 farmers including WSHGs. There will be an additional production of about 95.58 TMT meat per year & 5.5 lakh eggs per day upon implementation of the scheme.
The Government has also decided to spend Rs 696.21 crore for development of various infrastructures in fishery sector and Rs 449.71 crore for development of infrastructures for animal resources in three years (2024-25 to 2026-27), Ahuja said.
Another state sector umbrella scheme ‘Mukhyamantri Maschyajibi Kalyan Yojana (MMKY)’ was also approved by the cabinet. The scheme with 17 sub-schemes will be implemented in the state from the 2024-25 to 2028-29 with a total budget outlay of Rs 2239 crore.
He said that the scheme aims at covering all sectors of fisheries like freshwater, brackish water and marine to augment fish production and export to increase fishers’ income. The scheme will benefit about 14 lakh fishers including 6,67,500 fishers and 7,32,500 WSHG members in next five years.
Further, he said, the State has decided to extend the existing Water Sector Infrastructure Development Programme (WSIDP) with an estimated cost of Rs 9652.24 crore for a period of five years from the current financial year 2024-25 to accelerate the pace of irrigation development in the State, he added.