World Veterinary Day at BAU

Ranchi: Birsa Agriculture University (BAU) Vice Chancellor Dr SC Dubey said that the profession of veterinarians is more pious than that of the human doctors because they serve the silent animals and birds who can’t explain their ailment, pains, problems, agony and symptoms. As guardians of animal health on the planet, their life is very difficult devoid of comfort and health of animals is directly related to humans and the environment. All the techniques, medicines and procedures are first experimented on animals for result confirmation to be used in human healthcare and management in future.

Dr Dubey was addressing the World Veterinary Day (WVD) celebration organized at College of Veterinary Science of BAU on Saturday. Emphasizing on improving safe and quality nutritional content in animal products, he said 90 percent of Indian population is suffering from under nutrition, mal nutrition and micronutrient deficiency. Efforts for productivity enhancement should be without compromising the interest of future users of animal resources and environment, he added.

Special Guest of the event Dr AK Srivastava, former Dean of Veterinary Faculty and former VC of RKDF University said veterinary profession is one of the best globally as there is no unemployment or under employment. He advised the students to be courteous, disciplined, hard working and flexible for smooth career progression.

Welcoming the guests, Dr MK Gupta, Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry said veterinarians work under most difficult and dangerous conditions in rural areas taking care of livestock, wild and captive animals. Improvement in infrastructure facilities, safety measures and standard operating procedure for them is need of the hour. Per capita per day availability of meat, milk and eggs in the country is 480 ml, 15-20 grams and 100-110 respectively which needs to be further improved, he said .

Warden and Head, Dept of Veterinary Surgery Dr AK Sharma proposed a vote of thanks. Dr JP Srivastava, Dr DK Singh ‘Dron’ and student Rahul Prasad also spoke on the occasion.

The programme was anchored by Dr Pragya Priya Lakra and Dr Vishakha Singh. Prizes were distributed to winners of quiz, poster making, elocution and rangoli making competitions organized for students on the occasion. Health camp for goats and other animals and street play was also organized.