Abstract
India is a land of religions. There are multiple believes and description of cattle in society related with
the religion as well as in agriculture. India has the largest number of Cattle/ cows in the world.
Livestock in India is increasing every year with increasing awareness. Most part of the India the
slaughtering of Cattle specially cow is ban. To protect the cows Animal welfare Board of India (AWBI)
works for them and also the state government has established many Gaushalas (an affiliated shelter).
Cow shelters (gaushalas) are unique traditional institutions in India, where aged, infertile, diseased,
rescued, and abandoned cows are sheltered for the rest of their life, until they die of natural causes.
These institutions owe their existence to the revere nce for the cow as a holy mother goddess for
Hindus, the majority religion in India. The other aspect of running a gaushala is not simple as day to
day expense is required to overcome the demand of food / fodder for cows, medicine for the cows,
the infrast ructure, staff salary taking care of the cows, electricity expenses, etc. Gaushalas are getting
some fund from central as well as state governments and a lso in our country many private /
individuals also provide fund to the gaushalas.
Keyword:
Bio Gas Pl ant, KVIC model, Gaushala, Scrubber, Organic Manure