Key Village Scheme,

Intensive Cattle Development Project,

NPBB &DD, NDP-I
 GAUSALAS
• Recognizing the potential of Gaushalas (about 10000) which
were engaged in rehabilitation of disowned cattle, the
government of India in 1952 set up the Central Council of
Govsamvardana (CCG). Some of these gaushalas are providing
quality indigenous / cross breds / heifers / bulls at many places
like Nasik, Urli, Kanchan, Amirtsar, Indore and Ahmednagar.
One gaushala at Bombay has completed a century of devoted
work in 1986 and has established two institutes
– One for research and
– Another for fodder research and grassland development.
• The Sabarmathi Ashram gaushala founded in 1915 by Mahatma
Gandhi near Ahmedabad is now being managed by NDDB and
has a training centre for AI service including embryo transfer.
Objectives
• To preserve the Indian cows and progeny and to
breed and upgrade them for supplying plenty of
unadulterated milk and milk products to the
people and distribute the best female calves to
the villagers.
• Prepare best pedigree Indian Bulls and supply to
villagers for breeding and upgrading village cows.
• Production of best healthy bullocks for draught
work and preserve male calves for distribution to
agriculturists.
 GOSADANS

The Government of India appointed a ‘Cattle Preservation and

Development Committee’ on November 19th, 1947 under the
chairmanship of Sardar Datar Singh, Vice President of the
Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
• The Committee recommended establishment of ‘Gosadans’
where ‘uneconomic’ cattle could be housed cheaply and
allowed to die naturally.
• In pursuance of this recommendation a scheme for
establishment of 160 Gosadans in the country was included in
the first Five Year Plan with an outlay of Rs. 97.15 lakhs with the
idea to segregate the old, unproductive and useless cattle from
the good ones so as to control promiscuous breeding and also
to relieve pressure on the limited resources of feeds and fodder
available for the productive stock.
• One Gosadan was designed to house 2000 cattle in a
land of about 4000 acres.
• The scheme could not achieve the projected targets.
Only 17 Gosadans could be started during the plan
period. Established in the States of Bihar, UP, Pepsu,
Coorg, Bhopal, Kutch, Vindhya Pradesh, Tripura and
Saurashtra, these Gosadans could have only 5293
cattle against the capacity of 34,000.
• Lack of funds with the State Governments for
meeting their share of expenditure, non-availability
of suitable land, absence of legislative measures for
the compulsory removal of unproductive cattle from
owner’s premises, transport difficulties etc. are the
reasons generally advanced as to why the ‘Gosadan’
scheme could not succeed then.
 KEY VILLAGE SCHEME

• It was taken up in August 1952. This was the first

step initiated for systematic cattle improvement
with the comprehensive programme of
– Introduction of superior bulls
– Castration of undesirable inferior bulls
– Use of artificial insemination
– Milk recording
– Improved fodder production
– Prevention and treatment of diseases
– Distribution of mineral feed supplements
• Artificial Insemination (AI) was included as an integral part of
the technical programme.It envisaged establishment of Key
Village Blocks in breeding tracts of bovines and each block
consisted of one AI centre and four key village units to cover
about 10,000 breedable cows and buffaloes. The scheme
was evaluated at different phases and by 1962 it was very
well realized that it failed to evince the desired impact and
that too a large number of dairy plants were unable to
collect sufficient quantities of milk.
• The reasons for failure include establishment of centers in
the states where there were no recognized breeds, creating
confusion in the personnel of Animal Husbandry
Departments (AHDs) by introducing lot of modifications in
the scheme, inadequate attention paid to the fodder
development and in establishment of marketing cells.
 INTENSIVE CATTLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (ICDP)
• When KVS did not yield the expected results the
Government of India introduced another
comprehensive project, Intensive Cattle
Development Project (ICDP) almost on the similar
lines of Intensive Agricultural District Programme
in the year1963.
• The ICDP was started as a Special Development
Programme during Third Five Year Plan. It was
envisaged to locate the projects in the breeding
tracts of indigenous breeds of cattle and buffaloes
and in the milk sheds of large dairy projects.
 National Programme for Bovine
Breeding and Dairy Development
(NPBB&DD)
Objectives of NPBB & DD
 NDP-I
• National Dairy Plan Phase I (NDP I) is a Central
Sector Scheme for a period of 2011-12 to 2018-19. 
NDP I will be implemented with a total investment
of about ₹ 2242 crore comprising ₹ 1584 crore as
International Development Association (IDA)
credit, ₹ 176 crore as Government of India
share, ₹ 282 crore as share of End Implementing
Agencies (EIAs) that will carry out the projects in
participating states and ₹ 200 crore by National
Dairy Development Board and its subsidiaries for
providing technical and implementation support to
the project.
• Board of Executive Directors of the International
Development Association has approved a US$ 352
million credit on 15 March 2012 and Department of
Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries,
Government of India issued administrative approval
of central sector scheme NDP I vide office
memorandum F.No. 22-23/2011-DP dated 16 March
2012.
• Funding will be through a line of credit from the
International Development Association (IDA), which
along with the share of the Government of India will
flow from DADF to NDDB and in turn to eligible EIAs.
 Objectives
• NDP I is a scientifically planned multi-state initiative
with the following Project Development Objectives :
• To help increase productivity of milch animals and
thereby increase milk production to meet the rapidly
growing demand for milk
• To help provide rural milk producers with greater
access to the organised milk-processing sector
• These objectives would be pursued through adoption
of focused scientific and systematic processes in
provision of technical inputs supported by
appropriate policy and regulatory measures
 Project Area
• NDP I will focus on 18 major milk producing states
namely Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana,
Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar
Pradesh, West Bengal, Telangana, Uttarakhand,
Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh which together account
for over 90% of the country’s milk production.
Coverage of NDP I will however be across the country
in terms of benefits accruing from the scheme.