Gau Shalas

Madhya Pradesh will soon have 100 high-tech ''Gau Shalas'' (cow shelters) after Kumar Mangalam Birla of Birla Group agreed to the proposal of Chief Minister Kamal Nath.

The Madhya Pradesh government will open a thousand cow shelters - or gau shalas - for abandoned cattle over the next four months. The project will cost Rs 450 crore, ANI quoted officer on special duty to Madhya Pradesh Bhupendra Gupta as saying.

Nine officials, including two deputy directors, of Chhattisgarh animal husbandry department have been suspended amid allegations that 173 cows have died in about one week at three shelters, one of which is run by a local BJP leader.

After his teen son died at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh, his father was offered no transport to return home. Devastated, the man carried his 15-year-old's body first on his shoulders and then on a bike in Etawah in the western part of the state till he reached his village, seven kilometres away.

Madhya Pradesh will soon have 100 high-tech ''Gau Shalas'' (cow shelters) after Kumar Mangalam Birla of Birla Group agreed to the proposal of Chief Minister Kamal Nath.

The Madhya Pradesh government will open a thousand cow shelters - or gau shalas - for abandoned cattle over the next four months. The project will cost Rs 450 crore, ANI quoted officer on special duty to Madhya Pradesh Bhupendra Gupta as saying.

Nine officials, including two deputy directors, of Chhattisgarh animal husbandry department have been suspended amid allegations that 173 cows have died in about one week at three shelters, one of which is run by a local BJP leader.

After his teen son died at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh, his father was offered no transport to return home. Devastated, the man carried his 15-year-old's body first on his shoulders and then on a bike in Etawah in the western part of the state till he reached his village, seven kilometres away.