Patiala : Cabinet Minister for Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Dairy Development, Punjab, Gulzar Singh Ranike, has said in order to ensure the availability of requisite veterinary staff in the rural areas of Punjab, the state government would soon be recruiting as many as 400 veterinary inspectors. He further said with a view to end the scarcity of the veterinary doctors in the veterinary hospitals, dispensaries and polyclinics operating from various rural areas across the state, the government has decided to recruit 100 veterinary doctors and 25 veterinary specialists. “While 100 veterinary doctors will be posed in the veterinary hospitals, the 25 veterinary specialists will take care of the veterinary polyclinics. The case for their recruitment has already been sent to the Punjab Public Service Commission,” he said, while speaking to mediapersons at the Circuit House, here yesterday. Ranike further said it was for the first time that the government had announced that people in general category, who would purchase 2-10 animals would get a subsidy of 25 per cent, whereas those in reserve category would get 33 per cent subsidy. “The Punjab Government is also in process of opening four animal mandis at an estimated cost of Rs 10 crore in different parts of the state. Besides, the SAD-BJP Government will open 19 veterinary hospitals at the block level. Likewise, with an aim to provide treatment to animals with latest techniques in the state, the government has decided to open Polyclinics at the block level. Around Rs 11.25 crore will be spent on nine veterinary polyclinics, likely to come up in Punjab in near future,” he claimed.
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