TAKE PART IN CONSERVATION AND PROMOTION OF ANIMALS: GUV URGES PEOPLE

JAMSHEDPUR: Governor Draupadi Murmu on Sunday said tending to cows could make people self-dependent and called upon the people to actively participate in the animal’s conservation and promotion. Murmu was speaking at the unveiling ceremony of the statue of noted social worker and industrialist late Purushottam Das Jhunjhunwala in East Singhbhum district on Sunday.

“Saving, conserving and promoting cows and bovine animals is not only the responsibility of cowsheds but also the duty of entire mankind. People can become self-dependent by tending to cows. Cows don’t just give milk to us but its urine and dung are equally useful and beneficial. Late PD Jhunjhunwala was a committed social worker who took care of cows all his life in addition to being a successful industrialist. The new generation should take a leaf out of his life and his statue will continue to inspire them,” Murmu said.

Late Jhunjhunwala was the first chairperson of the state Gau Seva Commission and president of Chakulia Gaushala, run by Kolkata Pinjrapol Society. Murmu also unveiled a magazine on the life of the late industrialist. She also inspected a cowshed run by Dhyan Foundation at Chakulia airstrip.

“Like earth is our mother, cows, nature and rivers are also our life-giving mothers. They all nurture us throughout life. We have a divine and foremost responsibility to protect our mothers and fathers and keep them healthy. Similarly, we need to protect, save, conserve and promote cows, trees, nature and rivers for saving our mother earth and the human race so that it can sustain in the long run. We will have to be organised to save and promote bovine resources,” the Governor asserted.

Chakulia cowshed is the largest cow shelter in eastern India, where over 7,500 cows are presently kept and nurtured.

Most of the cows, bulls, buffaloes and camels there are rescued from smugglers. The cowshed spends ₹75 lakh every year in tending to these bovine animals.