M Venkaiah Naidu spoke with Union Ladies and Child Enchancment Minister Smriti Irani on this
New Delhi:
Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday steered that milk be included each in breakfast or mid-day meals to reinforce the dietary ranges of kids.
Mr Naidu spoke to Union Ladies and Child Enchancment Minister Smriti Irani on this regard, an official assertion talked about.
Ms Irani assured Mr Naidu that the central authorities would ponder recommending to the entire states to include milk inside the mid-day meal scheme.
Earlier inside the day, Secretary, Division of Animal Husbandry and Dairying Atul Chaturvedi referred to as on the vice chairman and briefed him about diverse measures being taken to help the poultry and dairy sectors to tide over the problems inside the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, the assertion talked about.
He educated Mr Naidu that the federal authorities was encouraging entrepreneurship inside the poultry sector and providing help by means of incentives and protection intervention.
He moreover talked about the Division of Animal Husbandry would ponder recommending to the Ministry of Finance the need to restructure loans for the poultry enterprise.
Mr Chaturvedi moreover apprised Mr Naidu of the stepping up of procurement by milk cooperatives inside the organised sector.
The federal authorities is providing an curiosity subvention of two per cent every year to cooperatives on working capital loans, the assertion talked about. Moreover, an additional incentive of two per cent curiosity subvention is being given in case of properly timed compensation.
On the suggestion of the vice chairman, the secretary assured that the federal authorities would ponder extending the identical facility to personal dairies, it talked about.
