Uttar Pradesh Pashudhan Swasthya Evam Rog Niyantran Yojana

What is Uttar Pradesh Pashudhan Swasthya Evam Rog Niyantran Yojana?

Uttar Pradesh Pashudhan Swasthya Evam Rog Niyantran Yojana is the state's livestock health and disease control programme, run by the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (Pashupalan Vibhag), Government of Uttar Pradesh. Its purpose is to keep the state's livestock free of notified diseases through mass vaccination, diagnosis, treatment and outbreak containment.

This is a service programme, not a cash benefit. There is no application form, no beneficiary list and no bank transfer. What the livestock owner gets is free vaccination and treatment through the department's veterinary network, plus the doorstep mobile veterinary service reached on the toll-free number 1962. Anyone looking for a scheme that pays money into an account is looking at the wrong programme, and that misunderstanding is the single most common one about this scheme.

The department's own motto on its portal is "We help those who can't help themselves". At the state level the directorate has a Director (Administration and Development) and a Director (Disease Control and Farms), the second of these owns the disease control side of the work.

How is the programme organised?

Uttar Pradesh Pashudhan Swasthya Evam Rog Niyantran Yojana is delivered through a three-tier field structure the department describes on its Who's Who page:

• State level, the Directorate of Animal Husbandry, Lucknow, under the Additional Chief Secretary and the Special Secretary, with the Director (Disease Control and Farms) responsible for the disease-control programme.
• Division level; 18 regional headquarters, each headed by an Additional Director (Grade II), Animal Husbandry, covering divisions such as Agra, Aligarh, Ayodhya, Azamgarh, Bareilly, Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Moradabad, Varanasi and others. Each has a listed office phone number and a CUG mobile number.
• District level: all 75 districts are headed by a Chief Veterinary Officer, who is the officer a livestock owner should approach for anything the local hospital cannot resolve.

The physical network under this structure includes veterinary hospitals, dispensaries and polyclinics, veterinary diagnostic laboratories, and state livestock and agriculture farms at Varanasi (Arajilines), Jalaun (Atta), Hapur (Babugarh), Jhansi (Bharari), Barabanki (Niblet and Chak Ganjaria), Meerut (Hastinapur), Kheri (Manjhra), Sitapur (Nilgaon) and Lalitpur (Saidpur). Breeding farms include the Bhadawari buffalo and Jamunapari goat farm at Etawah, the Barbari goat farm at Laxmipur in Kushinagar, the large sheep breeding farm at Bhaisaura, Naugarh in Chandauli, the sheep and goat farm at Vohadpura, Orai in Jalaun, and the pig breeding farm at CDF Aligarh.

What services does the programme provide?

• Free vaccination of cattle, buffalo, goats, sheep, pigs and poultry against notified diseases, in campaign rounds announced by the department.
• Disease diagnosis through veterinary diagnostic laboratories, which the department is upgrading into testing, research and animal care centres.
• Treatment at government veterinary hospitals, dispensaries and polyclinics.
• Doorstep treatment through the mobile veterinary service on 1962, designed so that a large animal that cannot be moved is still seen by a veterinarian.
• Outbreak containment, including the department's bird flu containment advisories and its heat wave prevention guidance for livestock, both published on the portal.
• Animal welfare oversight through the State Animal Welfare Board and the UP State Veterinary Council, and registration of gaushalas through the Pradeshik Gaushala Panjikaran Pranali at ahgoshalareg.up.gov.in.

Who is eligible for the programme?

You can use the services if:

• You own or keep livestock in Uttar Pradesh, cattle, buffalo, goats, sheep, pigs, poultry or draught animals. There is no landholding condition, no income limit and no caste condition.
• You are a landless livestock keeper. This matters: unlike most agriculture schemes, the veterinary service does not ask for a khatauni, so a landless family keeping two goats has the same access as a large dairy.
• You keep animals at a gaushala, dairy or farm registered in the state.

What the programme is not, and who therefore cannot apply:

• A livestock owner cannot apply for a cash grant under this programme. There is no subsidy component, no DBT and no beneficiary sanction. Individuals looking for cash support should look at the department's separate schemes for dairy units, goat units and poultry, several of which are advertised through poultrynivesh.in and the department's scheme notices.
• Compensation for the death of an animal is not payable here; that requires a livestock insurance arrangement, which the Chief Veterinary Officer can explain for your district.
• Institutions bidding for departmental work — NGOs, trusts, gau seva organisations, FPOs and registered societies, do not come through this route either. They respond to the department's Expression of Interest notices, such as the EOI for running destitute cattle shelters and the EOI for upgrading veterinary diagnostic laboratories and polyclinics in PPP mode.

How to apply for treatment and vaccination under the programme

1. Call 1962, the toll-free mobile veterinary service number listed on animalhusb.upsdc.gov.in, and give the caller-centre operator your location, the species and number of animals, and the symptoms.
2. Or visit the nearest government veterinary hospital or dispensary with the animal, or with a description of the case if the animal cannot travel. Timings and locations are listed under Veterinary Institutions on the departmental portal.
3. Carry the animal's ear tag number if it has one, and your mobile number, so the treatment is recorded against the right animal and you can be called for the follow-up dose.
4. Watch for the vaccination round in your village. Vaccination campaigns are organised by the Chief Veterinary Officer through block-level veterinary staff, and the schedule is announced locally rather than through an online booking system.
5. Escalate to the Chief Veterinary Officer of your district if the local institution cannot attend, and then to the Additional Director (Grade II) of your division.

What it costs

Vaccination and treatment under the disease control programme are provided free of cost. Where a specific service does carry a charge, the department publishes an approved rate list on its portal under Procurement, so a livestock owner can check the fixed rate before paying anything. No veterinary staff member is entitled to charge above the published rate, and no payment should be made without a receipt.

Common problems and how to fix them

• No response on 1962. Note the time of the call and take it to the Chief Veterinary Officer of the district, the mobile veterinary units are monitored centrally and complaints about non-response are actionable.
• Vaccination round missed the village. Contact the block veterinary officer and the Chief Veterinary Officer; catch-up rounds are the standard remedy.
• Animal not tagged, so the record cannot be linked. Ask the visiting team to tag the animal at the time of treatment.
• Confusion with a subsidy scheme. If what you actually need is capital support for a dairy, goat or poultry unit, ask the Chief Veterinary Officer for the current departmental scheme notice rather than filing anything under this programme.
• Private clinic charges after a government visit. Check the department's approved rate list before paying, and insist on a receipt.

Help, contacts and grievance route

• Mobile veterinary service: 1962 (toll free).
• Directorate of Animal Husbandry, Lucknow: 0522-2740482 and 0522-2740238, email directorahd@yahoo.com.
• Public Information Officer: Joint Director (Administration), Animal Husbandry Directorate, Lucknow: 0522-2740234. First Appellate Authority: Additional Director (Godhan Vikas), 0522-2740010.
• Chief Veterinary Officer of your district for service complaints; the Additional Director (Grade II) of your division for escalation. Divisional contacts are published on the department's Who's Who (Field Level) page.
• Jansunwai at jansunwai.up.nic.in for a written, trackable grievance.
• RTI Online at rtionline.up.gov.in for departmental records.

The department also invites public comment on policy; suggestions on the State Livestock Mission Uttar Pradesh draft were invited by email at directorahd@yahoo.com, which is a useful reminder that livestock owners and their associations have a formal channel into how the programme is designed, not only into how it is delivered.

How to check your application status

Uttar Pradesh Pashudhan Swasthya Evam Rog Niyantran Yojana has no beneficiary application to track, since it delivers vaccination and treatment as a walk-in or call-in service rather than a sanctioned benefit. Even so, three related interactions with the department do generate a trackable record, and each has its own status-check route.

• A gaushala registration filed on the Pradeshik Gaushala Panjikaran Pranali (ahgoshalareg.up.gov.in): log back in to the same portal with the credentials used at the time of filing to see whether the registration is pending, approved, or sent back for correction. There is no separate SMS or helpline status service for this registration, so the portal login is the only way to check it.
• A written grievance filed on Jansunwai (jansunwai.up.nic.in): every grievance registered on the portal gets a reference number at submission. Enter that number on the portal's status page to see whether it is still with the district animal husbandry office, has been forwarded to the divisional Additional Director, or has been closed, and to read the officer's remarks if it has been closed.
• An RTI application filed with the department's Public Information Officer: track it on rtionline.up.gov.in using the application number issued at filing, which shows whether the 30-day statutory reply period is running or has lapsed, and whether the First Appellate Authority, the Additional Director (Godhan Vikas) at 0522-2740010, has received an appeal against it.

For the vaccination and treatment service itself, the only "status" that exists is whatever the treating veterinary hospital, dispensary or the 1962 call centre tells the livestock owner directly, since there is no ticket number or online case ID attached to a routine treatment visit. If a case was escalated by phone to the Chief Veterinary Officer, the practical way to follow up is to call that office back and quote the date and details of the earlier call rather than expect a written case number.

Common reasons for rejection

Because this is a free service programme rather than a benefit an applicant is sanctioned for, there is no rejection of a "claim" in the usual sense. Refusals and setbacks that livestock owners actually run into happen at three points, and each has a specific fix.

• Gaushala registration returned or refused on the Pradeshik Gaushala Panjikaran Pranali. This typically happens when the shelter's documents (land or premises proof, animal count, and the registering body's own society or trust papers) do not match what the online form declares, or when the applicant is an individual rather than a registered gaushala, trust, or society, since the system is built to register institutions, not private animal keepers. The fix is to have the society or trust documents in order before filing, and to re-file only after correcting whatever discrepancy the portal or the district office flags.
• A request for compensation or a cash grant is turned away because it does not belong to this programme. Livestock owners sometimes approach the veterinary hospital or the Chief Veterinary Officer expecting compensation for a dead animal, or capital support for setting up a dairy, goat or poultry unit, and are told this scheme does not cover it, since it funds services (vaccination, diagnosis, treatment) and not payouts. The fix is not to appeal that refusal here at all, but to ask the same Chief Veterinary Officer which separate departmental scheme (livestock insurance for a death claim, or a dairy or poultry unit scheme advertised through the department's notices or poultrynivesh.in) actually fits the need, and to apply there instead.
• An institution's response to a departmental Expression of Interest is rejected. NGOs, trusts, gau seva organisations, FPOs and registered societies that bid to run a destitute cattle shelter or to upgrade a veterinary diagnostic laboratory or polyclinic under an EOI are evaluated against the eligibility and document conditions stated in that specific EOI notice, not against any general criteria. A bid is set aside when the entity's registration papers, financial or operational track record, or proposed facility do not meet what that EOI specifies, so the only reliable fix is to read the current EOI document in full before bidding rather than assume the terms of an earlier one still apply.