GUIDELINES FOR RGM BEST PERFORMING STATE

AWARD

Government of India

Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries

INDEX

S. No. Particulars Page No

1 Preamble 1

2 Objectives 1

3 Eligibility 1

4 Nomination process for RGM Best Performing State Award

2

5 National Awards 3

6 National Level Award Committee 3

7 General 3

10 Calendar for National Level events 3

11 Annexure-I: Format of Nomination to RGM Best Performing State Award

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12 Annexure-II: Score Card for State Nomination Committee to Recommend States for RGM Best Performing State Award

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GUIDELINES FOR ADJUDGING RGM BEST PERFORMING STATE AWARD

1. Preamble:

In India, the livestock production and agriculture are inherently linked; they

complement each other and both are crucial for the overall food security of the

people. Livestock are considered vital for livelihood security of the poor and

vulnerable population. Global food demand is ever increasing due to

exponential increase in population while the agricultural productivity is

declining, largely due to shrinking of resources particularly cultivable land.

Under such a situation, role of livestock sector to fulfill growing food demand

is of paramount importance in terms of nutritional security and employment

generation.

Over the last two decades, the changes within cattle population indicate a

radical shift from work animals to milk production. India has made

phenomenal progress in world milk production over the last one and a half

decade. But there are wide inter-state variations in milk production and

productivity. For instance, Punjab has the highest productivity of crossbred

and indigenous cattle while Tamil Nadu has the highest productivity of exotic

cattle. Uttar Pradesh is the top ranking state in milk production as well as top

AI performer of the country. Thus there is no convergence among the states in

productivity. Despite a number of schemes on new reproductive technologies

having been introduced for enhancing the reproductive performances of dairy

cattle, there is a wide variation among the states in implementation. Some

States are lagging behind in overall breeding performance. Therefore there is

a need to raise the spirit of the States to outperform in animal husbandry

activities. Hence this award is proposed to be instituted.

2. Objective:

To inspire a healthy competition among States for excellence in Veterinary

practices, the RGM Best performing State Award is proposed to be instituted.

3. Eligibility:

All States/ Union Territories participating in implementation of schemes under

Rashtriya Gokul Mission shall be eligible to apply for the award.

4. Nomination process for RGM Best performing State Award:

4.1 State Nomination:

For the purpose of identifying RGM Best performing State Award, the

Commissioner/ Director of State Animal Husbandry Department has to apply

as per the prescribed format given at Annexure-I.

4.2 Procedure of Nomination:

Nomination for RGM Best performing State Award in the prescribed format

shall be submitted to the Chairperson (Principal Secretary/Secretary of the

Dept. of Animal Husbandry of the State) .

4.3 The Chairperson shall evaluate the recommendations submitted by the

Commissioner/ Director of State Animal Husbandry Department and assign

the score as per the score card given at Annexure-II for RGM Best performing

State Award and recommend the best performing State for submission to

DADF GoI.

4.4 The decision of the Chairperson for the nomination to RGM Best performing

State Award will be final and is a binding to all the applicants.

5. National Awards:

The Chairperson will send the nomination for the RGM Best performing State

Award to DADF by 25th January every year. The DADF after having

compiled the information of all the States’ nominations for the award will

place it before the National Level Award Committee.

6. National Level Award Committee:

6.1 The National Level Committee shall consist of the following members for adjudging the award:

(i) Animal Husbandry Commissioner - Chairperson

(ii) DDG (AS) -Member

(iii) JS (C&DD)/LH/NLM - Member

(iv) JC/DC/AC ( Cattle Division) -Member Secretary

6.2 The above award committee will evaluate the details of the States’ nominations.

6.3 The decision of the award committee for the awards will be final and is

a binding to all the States/UT’s .

7. General:

7.1 There will be a RGM Best performing State Award at the National level.

7.2 The award will consist of a Certificate of merit and a memento.

8. Calendar of National Level events:

1 25th January Submission of State recommendations to DADF

2 25th February Meeting of the National Level Selection Committee

3 25th March Intimation to the awardees by GoI

4 Last Saturday of April Award Ceremony organized by GoI

8.1. The award ceremony will be held on World Veterinarians Day i. e Last Saturday of

April every year at a place decided by the Department of Animal Husbandry,

Dairying and Fisheries.

Annexure-I

Format for Nomination to RGM Best performing State Award through

Chairperson

State

Name of the Commissioner/Director of State Animal

Husbandry Department:

Email id, Mobile No. /Landline No.

Contact Address:

Date: Signature of the Commissioner/Director of

State Animal husbandry Dept.

Place: (Name in Block letters)

Date: Signature of the Chairperson

Place: (Name in Block letters and Office seal)

Verification by the Chairperson

Part A

1. Production and Productivity :

S.No Attributes Details

1 Average Milk Production in the last 5 years ( 000’ Tons)

2 Average productivity/ milch cattle in the last 5 years (Kg/day)

3 Average Per capita availability of Milk in the last 5 years

2. Availability of Veterinary health care :

3.Breeding:

S.No Attributes Details

1 Breeding policy

2 Average AI coverage % in the last 3 years

3 Data updation on INAPH/epashuhaat database

4 Cold chain maintenance in supply of Breeding inputs

5 No. of MAITRI’s inducted since inception of the SLDB/SLDA.

S.No Attributes Details

1 No. of Government Veterinary Hospitals/Polyclinics/Dispensaries/Mobile Veterinary Units. Institutions as on 1.4. 2017

2 No.of Veterinary Laboratory facilities/Disease Diagnostic Laboratories

3 Animal Disease Prevention and control Vaccination done (during 2016-17)

4 Disease Reporting Number of block nodes active and reported under NADRS during 2016-17

5 Capacity Building Veterinarians/Para Veterinarians trained under CVE/ASCAD

Part B -

4. Other Scheme related activities:

S.No Attributes Details

1 No. of male calves for Natural service

2 No. of accredited AI Training centres in the State

3 Organization of seminars & workshops

4 No. of FPRP conducted

5 No. of Progeny testing /Pedigree selection programme conducted

6 Gokul grams

7 National Kamdhenu Breeding centres (NKBC)

8 Semen stations

9 Embryo Transfer Technology labs

10 Bull Mother Farms

11 National GopalRatna/ Kamdhenu awards Awards

12 Bull Mother Farms

13 Augmentation of resources from other schemes

5. Extension activities:

Date: Signature of the Chairperson

Place: (Name in Block letters and Office seal)

S.No Attributes Details

1 Infertility /health camps

2 Milk competition/ Mela/Calf rally

3 No. of literary activities undertaken ( Leaflets, Pamphlets, Folders, Breeding calendars, Circulars, Posters, Wall writing/ paintings, charts etc )

Verification

Annexure-II

Score card for Chairperson to recommend State for

RGM Best performing State Award

State:

Name of the Commissioner/Director of State Animal Husbandry Department:

Email id, Mobile No. /Landline No.

Contact Address:

Part- B

1. Production and Productivity( Maximum - 15 marks) :

S. No

Attributes Criteria and Pro rata marking Maximum

Marks Marks

secured

1 Average Milk Production in the last 5 years ( 000’ Tons)

For every 000 ‘ ton of milk produced, 0.0002 marks

5 marks

2 Average productivity/ milch cattle in the last 5 years (Kg/day)

For every I kg /day productivity, 0.83 marks 5 marks

3 Average Per capita availability of Milk in the last 5 years

For every gram, 0.005 marks 5 marks

2. Availability of Veterinary health care ( Maximum 18 marks):

S.No Attributes Criteria and Pro rata marking Maximum

Marks Marks

secured

1 No. of Government Veterinary Hospitals/Polyclinics/Dispensaries/Mobile Veterinary Units. Institutions as on 1.4. 2017

Veterinary Hospitals/Dispensaries available as per (NCA, 1976) norms

80% and above------ 2 marks

70-79 % ----------------1.5 marks

50-69 % ----------------1 marks

Less than 50%-------0.5 marks

2 marks

2 No. of Veterinary Laboratory facilities/Disease Diagnostic Laboratories

Facilities available at DDLs: Molecular – PCR Serological – ELISA Bacteriology – Culture, Isolation and ABST Virology – Isolation, Cell culture etc. Pathological – Blood, Urine and Histo-pathological Parasitology – Feacal Sample/ Skin Scraping and Blood for haemo-protozoan Toxicological / Forensic – Residual, HPLC etc.

Molecular with others– 5 marks

Serological and others – 4 marks

Virology and others– 3 marks

Bacteriology and Parasitology – 2 mark

Pathological and others – 1 mark

5 marks

3 Animal Disease Prevention and control Vaccination done (during 2016-17)

Vaccination done (during 2016-17) against 1. Foot & Mouth Disease (% coverage of animals )

80% and above-------3 marks

61-79 % ----------------2 marks

41-60 % ----------------1 marks

Less than 40% -------0 marks 2. Vaccination carried out against HS/BQ/Anthrax/ Brucellosis

If all yes ---------- 2 marks

If 3 yes ------------1.5 marks

If 2 yes ------------1 mark

If one yes ---------0.5 marks

5 marks

3.Breeding( Maximum 30 marks):

S. No

Attributes Criteria and Pro rata marking Maximum Marks

Marks secured

1 Breeding policy Clear cut breeding policy – 1 mark Notified of breeding policy - 1 mark Action plan to operationalize the policy – 1 mark Periodicity of reviewing the policy- 1 mark Notified Breeding Policy act – 1 mark

5 Marks

2 Average AI coverage % in the last 3 years [ to be calculated as per (No.of A.I done/3) /Animals available for A.I X 100)]

For every percent of AI coverage, 0.1 mark 10 marks

3 Data updation on INAPH/epashuhaat database

For every data entry, 0.0008 marks 8 marks

4 Cold chain maintenance in supply of Breeding inputs

Uninterrupted LN2 distribution Yes- 2 marks No- 0 marks

2 marks

5 No. of MAITRI’s inducted since inception of NPBB/IB .

For every MAITRI inducted, 0.0014 marks 5 marks

4 Disease Reporting Number of block nodes active and reported under NADRS during 2016-17

No. of block nodes active and reported under NADRS during 2016-17

Above 80% ------------ 3 marks

61-80 % ----------------2.5 marks

41-60 % ----------------2 marks

21-40 % ----------------1.5 marks

0-20 % ------------1 mark

3 marks

5 Capacity Building Veterinarians/Para Veterinarians trained under CVE/ASCAD

Percentage trained –

Above 50% trained – 3 mark

20-50 % trained –2 mark

Less than 20 % - 1 mark

3 marks

4. Other Scheme related activities undertaken since inception of NPBB/IB ( Max.marks- 34 )

S. No

Attributes Criteria and Pro rata marking Maximum

Marks Marks

secured

1 No. of male calves for Natural service

For every male calf procured, 0.0038 marks 5 marks

2 No. of accredited AI Training centres in the State

For every accredited centre, 0.5 marks 2 marks

3 Organization of seminars & workshops

For every seminar/workshop- 1 mark 1 mark

4 No. of FPRP conducted

For every Indigenous breed- 1 mark, max.

4 marks.

For every crossbred, 0.5 mark, max -1 mark

5 marks

5 No. of Progeny testing /Pedigree selection programme conducted

For every PT/PS programme- 0.21 marks

5 marks

6 Gokul grams Civil works (max- 1 mark)

under progress – 0.5 mark

Completed – 1 mark

No.of animals inducted – For every

animal inducted, 0.0025 marks ( max- 1

mark)

Purchase of Agricultural equipments

( max- 0.5 mark)

Under progress -0.25 mark

Purchase completed – 0.5 marks

2.5 marks

7 National Kamdhenu Breeding centres (NKBC)

Civil works (max- 1 mark)

under progress – 0.5 mark

Completed – 1 mark

No.of animals inducted – For every

animal inducted, 0.0025 marks ( max- 1

mark)

Purchase of Agricultural equipments

( max- 0.5 mark)

Under progress -0.25 mark

Purchase completed – 0.5 marks

2.5 marks

8 Semen stations No. of graded semen stations-

For every A grade station, 0.11 marks

( max.marks- 4marks)

For every B grade station, 0.07 mark

( max. marks - 1 mark)

5 marks

9 Embryo Transfer Technology labs

No. of embryos transferred 10-50 Nos – 0.5 marks

50-100 Nos. – 1 mark

Above 100 Nos.- 2 marks

2 marks

10 Bull Mother Farms % of elite animals maintained upto 31.3. 2017 5-10% - 0.5 marks

10-20% - 1 mark

Above 20% - 2 marks

2 marks

11 National Gopal Ratna/ Kamdhenu awards Awards

National Gopal Ratna/ Kamdhenu awards Awards Participation - 1 mark Participation and award Winner – 2 marks

2 marks

6. Extension activities( Max. marks- 3 ) :

S. No

Attributes Criteria and Pro rata marking Maximum

Marks Marks

secured

1 Infertility /health camps during 2016-17

For every Infertility camp organised, 0.0007 marks

1 mark

2 Milk competition/ Mela /Calf rally during 2016-17

For every Milk competition/ Mela/Calf rally organised, 0.2 mark

1 mark

3 No. of literary activities undertaken during 2016-17 ( Leaflets, Pamphlets, Folders, Breeding calendars, Circulars, Posters, Wall writing/ paintings, charts etc )

No. of literary activities undertaken ( Leaflets, Pamphlets, Folders, Breeding calendars, Circulars, Posters, Wall writing/ paintings, charts etc ). For every activity, 0.25 marks

1 mark

1. Final Score: /100

2. Recommended/ot recommended

3. Reasons if any :

Principal Secretary/Secretary, Dept. of Animal Husbandry of the State- Chairperson

( Name& Signature )