Animal hostel project a social business
A revolutionary rural empowerment concept envisioned by Gujarat’s
visionary Chief Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, is the Animal Hostel.
Animal Hostel is a large-scale community facility for milch animals of a
village where these animals are reared scientifically, and managed on a cooperative
basis. The facilities in the hostel includes: Scientific cattle sheds, inhouse
fodder production & storage, electricity generation through bio-gas
plants, vermi-compost production, milk collection room, in-house veterinary
& breeding services, water harvesting system.
First of its kind in the entire country,an animal hostel has been commissioned
at Aakodara Village, near Himmatnagar in Sabarkantha District and
inaugurated on 06.05.2011.
Benefits of project :
Nirmal Gam- removal of dung heaps
Increase in milk yield by 15 % .
Reduction in working hours of women – saving of 800 person days
per month,-Rs. 3.75 Lakhs per month
Prevention of about 3.2 tones of methane emission into atmosphere
due to gobar gas
Generation of 225 units of electricity per day, this would prevent
emission of 105 tonnes of green house gases