Punjab To Organise Dairy Development Training Programme From May 10, 2016

Chandigarh, April 20, 2016: The Punjab government has formulated an extensive action plan to introduce latest technology in the field of dairy development and making this as an alternative and remunerative trade across the state.
Disclosing this here today Mr.Gulzar Singh Ranike Animal Husbandry Minister Punjab said that the Government would encourage the farmers and youth in particular to adopt Dairy development as a venture. He said that to increase the business prospects of dairy development, more and more educated and progressive youth needed to be roped in. He also said that the government was imparting short duration job oriented technical training to the dairy farmers so as to polish their skills time to time.
Divulging more information, the Minister said that 6 week practical training would be imparted in various training institutes set up by the government to the interested youth on May 10, 2016. There would be an interactive sessions with the experts of Guru Angad Dev University of veterinary Sciences, Ludhiana and Dairy Research organisation Karnal and literature on dairy development would also be distributed on the occasion.
Mr. Inderjit Singh Director Dairy Development while giving further schedule for the 6-week training to be imparted by the government, said that the training would be given in Dairy development units of Beeja in Ludhiana, Chatamali in Ropar, Gill in Moga, Abul Khurana in Sri Muktsar Sahib, Sardulgarh in Mansa, Taran tarn, Phagwara and Verka in Amritsar. To select the youth for training would be interviewed on April 26, 2016 on the specific Training institutes. Minimum qualification has been fixed for male and female as Matric and the age between 18 to 45 years and also whose who are having dairy farm of at least 5 milching animals. The prospectus of Rs. 100 was available with the concerned Deputy Director or Dairy Development Officer appointed in the training institutes, he added. Further information in this regard could be sought from 0172-5035244 and 0172-2700228.