GOI constitutes National Advisory Committee for Animal Husbandry sector
Pashudhan Praharee, Bhopal. July 8, 2022
To recommend, prescribe and advise policies relating to Animal Husbandry,For dairying, poultry, piggery, goatry and other livestock sectors & matters, the Government of India constituted a National Advisory Committee for Animal Husbandry, Dairying and allied sectors. An official memorandum regarding the constitution of this committee is released by the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying (MFADH), on the 5th of July 2022.
The National Advisory Committee will be chaired by Union Minister (MFAHD) and co-chaired by the minister of state (MFAHD). Secretary (AHD) will act as an esteemed member of the committee along with the Animal Husbandry Commissioner, Additional Secretary, Joint Secretaries and Statistical Advisor of DAHD, GoI will be its members. Dr O.P. Chaudhary, Joint Secretary, DAHD, GoI will act as Member secretary of the committee and plan Coordination Unit of DAHD, GoI will provide all secretarial assistance to the
Committee. The Committee will meet once every quarter and at least four times in a financial year.
Sector-wise members/representatives of the committee are as under:-
Cattle and Dairy sector
1. Dr R S Sodhi, MD, Amul (GCMMF), Gujarat
- Sangram Chaudhary, MD, BANAS Dairy, Gujarat
- Baljit S. Redhu, MD, Lakshya Food India Limited, Haryana
- R G Chandramogan, CMD, Hatsun Agro Product Limited, Tamil Nadu
- Dr Arvind Gautam, CEO, Accuvance LLP, I\IF lab Hisar, Haryana
- Ramesh Jindal, Hisar Bovine Sperm Station, Haryana
- Daljeet Singh Gill Chairman, PDFA, Punjab
- Dilip Bhai Sakhiya, Gujarat Maintaining indigenous breed of cattle
- Dr Inderjeet Singh, VC, GADVASU, Ludhiana, Punjab
- Dr Suresh S. Honnappagol, Former AHC, Karnataka
- Dr Shyam Zawar, Cattle Expert Maharashtra
Poultry
- Prof. P K Shukla Dean, Pandit Deen Daya Upadhaya pashu Chikitsa Vigyan
Vishwa Vidyalaya, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh - Dr G Devegowda, President, Institute of the veterinarian in the poultry industry
Karnataka - Bahadur Ali, MD, IB group Pvt Ltd. and chairman of All India poultry
Breeder Association, Chhattisgarh - Suresh chitturi, President Intemational Egg commission, Telangana
- Vignesh Soundarajan, Saguna Food Pvt Ltd.,
- Ramesh Chander Khatri, Poultry Federation of India, Haryana
- Dr AK Srivastava, National Technical Manager, Zoetis India Ltd., Mumbai,
Sheep and Goat
- Dr Mukul Anand, Asst. prof. Pandit Deen Dayar upadhaya pashu Chikitsa
Vigyan Vishwa Vidyalaya, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh - Prof. Nazir Ahmad Ganai, VC, SUKAST, Jammu &Kashmir
- Sanjeev Kumar, Founder and Adviser, The Goat Trust, Lucknow,
- Shri Vinayak Vasant Narawade, Aai Goat Farm, Savidane, Pune,
- Deepak Patidar, Goat Entrepreneur, Madhya Pradesh
24, Dr D K Sadana, Former Head Animal Genetic Resources, NBAGR, Karnal,
- Dr Manoj Mishra, Executive Director-Centre for Pastoralism, Ahmedabad,
- Dr Arun Kumar Tomar, Director, CSWRI, Wool Expert, Rajasthan
Piggery
- Dr Shyamal Naskar, Pr Scientist, [VRI-ERS), Kolkata
- Dr Santanu Banik, Pr. Scientist, NRC-Pig, Guwahati, Assam
- Anabil Goswami, Arohan Foods Pvt Ltd., Assam
- Sukhwinder Singh Grewal, Indo Canadian Swine Breeder Farm,
Ludhiana
Feed & Fodder
- Dr Amaresh Chandra, Director, ICAR- IGFRI, Jhansi,
- Suresh Deora, Secretary, CLFMA
- Dr Raghavendra Bhatta, Director, MANP, Banglore
- Amarnath Sarangula, Founding Director, Cornext AgriProduct Pvt Ltd.
- Dr Balram Singh Yadav, Managing Director, Godrej Agrovet Ltd.,
- Dr Anil Kumar Puniya, Pr. Scientist, NDRI, Expert, Haryana
- Dr Saurabh Shekhar, Managing Director, Nutreco- India and South Asia
Livestock Health
- Rajiv Gandhi, CEO & Managing Director, Hester Biosciences limited
- Dr K Bandopadhyay, Ex-Animal Husbandry Commissioner, New Delhi
- Dr FM Kataria, Ex-Director, CARI, Uttar Pradesh
- Dr Devender Swaroop, Ex-Director, CIRG Maqdum, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
- Dr. Praveen Malik, Former AHC, Pr. Scientist, ICAR, NRCE, Hisar, Haryana
- Dr Krishan Murari Lal Pathak, Former DDG(AS), ICAR, New Delhi
Waste to Wealth
- Jayesh Parikh, CHEM process Systems Pvt. Ltd., Ahmadabad, Gujarat
- Dr KP Singh, VC, Rohelkhand University, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
- Mital Narottambhai Khetani, president- Shree Karuna Foundation Trust Rajkot, Gujarat
- Gopalbhai Sutariya, Founder-Bansi Gir Gaushala, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
- Aseem Rawat, Hertha Organics, Uttar Pradesh