Chief Minister's White Revolution Scheme

What is Chief Minister's White Revolution Scheme?

Chief Minister's White Revolution Scheme, written in scheme papers as CMWRS, is a dairy development scheme of the Department of Animal Husbandry, Veterinary and Dairy Development, Government of Arunachal Pradesh. The scheme was approved in the 2018-19 state budget announcement with a total outlay of Rs 750 lakh to raise milk production in five identified districts of the state.

Chief Minister's White Revolution Scheme has two objectives that sit side by side. The first is production: Arunachal Pradesh consumes far more milk than it produces and imports the balance from Assam, so every litre produced inside the state substitutes an import. The second is institutional: the scheme is explicitly aimed at rejuvenating the cooperative system on the Amul pattern, that is, building village-level dairy cooperative societies that collect, chill and market milk instead of leaving individual farmers to sell door to door.

The department that runs it, the Department of Animal Husbandry, Veterinary and Dairy Development, was bifurcated from the Department of Agriculture in 1975 and delivers veterinary services through district veterinary hospitals, dispensaries, aid centres and mobile veterinary units. Its directorate is at Nirjuli.

How much does Chief Minister's White Revolution Scheme pay?

The financial package under Chief Minister's White Revolution Scheme has several parts:

• 50 per cent capital subsidy, up to Rs 3 lakh, on a minimum unit of two milch cows. This is the core benefit.
• Kisan Credit Card working capital loan of up to Rs 3 lakh per farmer, covering roughly three months of feed, insurance, vaccines and veterinary assistance.
• 25 per cent top-up subsidy on cold storage, transportation and bulk milk coolers, the chilling and movement infrastructure without which milk in a hill district spoils before it reaches a buyer.
• 33 per cent subsidy under the Government of India's Dairy Entrepreneurship Development Scheme (DEDS) for successful dairy societies, layered on top of the state support.
• Interest relief: the state government provides a 4 per cent interest subvention through NABARD to the Apex Bank so that loans reach dairy farmers at 0 per cent interest.
• Logistics amount transferred directly to the farmer's bank account.

The scheme runs at two unit sizes. A standard dairy subsidy unit is five cows. A dairy entrepreneurship unit is 15 cows, meant for progressive farmers who can run a commercial operation. Selected entrepreneurs are supplied milch cows with a yield capacity of about 8 to 10 litres per day together with heifers, preferably pregnant ones, so that the herd grows without a second purchase.

Importantly, the animals are procured by the District Dairy Development Committee and distributed to the selected beneficiaries. The farmer does not receive cash to go and buy a cow. This is deliberate: it controls the breed and the yield of what enters the state, and it prevents a subsidy from being drawn against an animal that does not exist.

Who is eligible for Chief Minister's White Revolution Scheme?

You can apply if:

• You are a permanent resident of Arunachal Pradesh and hold a Permanent Residence Certificate issued by the Deputy Commissioner.
• You are a dairy farmer of the state and are selected by the District Dairy Development Committee.
• You are located in one of the districts taken up under the scheme.
• You have a bank account in your own name, since the subsidy, the KCC loan and the logistics amount all route through it.

Preference is given to women applicants and to genuinely poor households. This is written into the eligibility rather than left to the committee's discretion.

You cannot apply if:

• You are not a permanent resident of Arunachal Pradesh.
• You are not selected by the District Dairy Development Committee. Selection by the committee is the operative gate; submitting a form does not by itself create an entitlement.
• Your district is not among those taken up in the current cycle. The scheme was framed for five potential dairy districts, not for all of the state's 25 districts at once.
• You want the cash rather than the animals. Beneficiaries receive cows procured by the committee, so a proposal that asks only for money will not fit the scheme's design.

What documents are required?

How to apply for Chief Minister's White Revolution Scheme

1. Visit the District Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Officer in your district headquarters and say that you want to apply under Chief Minister's White Revolution Scheme.
2. Obtain the prescribed application form and the farmer-details format from that office.
3. Fill in every field: your name, village, existing livestock, the unit size you are asking for (two, five or fifteen cows), your shed or land position, and your bank details.
4. Attach the documents: Aadhaar card, Permanent Residence Certificate, bank passbook copy and, if you have one, the BPL card.
5. Submit the completed form to the District Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Officer and take an acknowledgement.
6. Wait for the District Dairy Development Committee's selection. The committee scrutinises applications, verifies your capacity to keep animals, and draws up the beneficiary list.
7. Complete the bank formalities if you are also taking the Kisan Credit Card working capital loan, so that the 0 per cent interest arrangement through the Apex Bank applies.
8. Take delivery of the animals procured and distributed by the committee, and sign the receipt records.

How do I check the status of my application?

Chief Minister's White Revolution Scheme has no online tracker. Check status in this sequence:

1. District Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Officer, the office that received your form holds the file and knows whether it has gone to the committee.
2. District Dairy Development Committee through the Deputy Commissioner's office. This is where selection actually happens.
3. Directorate of Animal Husbandry, Veterinary and Dairy Development, Nirjuli — for escalation. The department's website, ahvdd.arunachal.gov.in, publishes notices, tenders, office orders and its citizen charter.

Watch your bank account rather than waiting for a letter. The logistics amount is credited directly, so a credit is often the first sign your case has moved.

Why applications get rejected, and how to fix it

• No Permanent Residence Certificate. Get one from the Deputy Commissioner before applying; the scheme is limited to permanent residents.
• No shed or no arrangement to keep the animals. The committee verifies that a beneficiary can actually house and feed a two-, five- or fifteen-cow unit. Build or arrange the shed first.
• District not covered this cycle. Ask the District AH&V Officer whether your district is in the current phase before spending on paperwork.
• Bank account dormant or not in the applicant's name. Activate the account and get the Aadhaar seeded.
• Duplicate benefit. A household that already received livestock under another state or central dairy scheme for the same purpose is likely to be set aside in favour of a new beneficiary.
• Incomplete farmer-details format. The prescribed format asks for existing livestock and land; leaving it blank stalls verification.

How Chief Minister's White Revolution Scheme fits with other schemes

Arunachal Pradesh's Department of Animal Husbandry, Veterinary and Dairy Development also implements several central schemes that a dairy farmer will encounter alongside CMWRS:

• National Livestock Mission
• Rashtriya Gokul Mission, for indigenous breed development
• National Programme for Dairy Development, which funds chilling and processing infrastructure
• Livestock Health and Disease Control and the National Animal Disease Control Programme, which cover vaccination
• Dairy Entrepreneurship Development Scheme (DEDS), whose 33 per cent subsidy the state layers on for successful dairy societies

At the state level, Atma Nirbhar Pashu Palan Yojana covers a wider range of livestock activity for unemployed individuals, self help groups and cooperative societies. A farmer who is not selected under CMWRS in a given year should ask about that scheme rather than wait a full cycle.

Help and grievance redressal

• District Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Officer, first point of contact for the form, the documents and your file.
• Deputy Commissioner's office, for questions about the District Dairy Development Committee's selection.
• Directorate of Animal Husbandry, Veterinary and Dairy Development, Nirjuli, for escalation. The department publishes its citizen charter, notices and contact list on ahvdd.arunachal.gov.in.

There is no fee to apply under Chief Minister's White Revolution Scheme. No middleman can charge you to be placed on the District Dairy Development Committee's beneficiary list.