Assistance to States for Control of Animal Diseases (ASCAD)

Under this component, assistance is provided to State/Union Territory Governments for

control of economically important and zoonotic diseases of livestock and poultry by way of
immunization, strengthening of existing State Veterinary Biological Production Units,
strengthening of existing Disease Diagnostic Laboratories and in-service training to Veterinarians
and Para-veterinarians. Under this programme, funds are also provided for vaccination against
canine rabies and for control of endo- parasites in cattle & buffaloes. The programme is being
implemented on 60:40 sharing basis between Centre and States except in North Eastern and 3
Himalayan States (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand) where the funding is
on 90: 10 Centre: State sharing basis, whereas 100% central share for Union Territories.
However, 100% assistance is provided for conducting training and holding workshop/seminar.
The State Biological Production Units are also being strengthened to make them GMP
compliant with the assistance of central share of Rs. 10 crore per unit, under the programme.

Besides this, the programme envisages collection of information on the incidence of

various livestock and poultry diseases from States and Union Territories and compiling the same
for the whole country. The information compiled at headquarter is notified to World
Organization for Animal Health (OIE) on every six monthly basis.

Activities to be undertaken under Assistance to States for Control of Animal Diseases

(ASCAD)

Sl.No. Items Activity

1. Immunization against economically important diseases of livestock and
poultry.
i. Cost of vaccine Vaccine will be procured through
tendering / from Government biological
production units of the States.
This includes expenses on needle,
syringes, gloves, sterilizer, cotton,
ii. Cost of vaccination
glassware & disposables, chemicals,
diagnostics, supportive medicine,
transportation and delivery system etc.)
Cost of Cold cabinet (maximum upto Rs
4.00 lakh per unit)
iii. Development of cold chain Cost of Refrigerator(maximum upto Rs
facilities and maintenances of 20,000.00 per unit)
cold chain.
Cost of vaccine carrier (maximum upto
Rs 1200.00 per unit)
2. Strengthening/ modernization of Biological Production units / Disease
diagnostics laboratories
A. Biological Production units (i) Alteration/modification of BP
units (maximum upto Rs 60.00 lakh
 per unit).
(ii) Fermentor Technology (maximum
upto Rs 70.00 lakh per unit)
(iii) Freeze drier Machine (maximum
upto Rs 65.00 lakh per unit)

i. Alteration/modification of DI Labs
B Disease diagnostics (maximum upto Rs 20.00 lakh per
laboratories unit). The funds will also be utilized
for alteration/modification of the
ELISA labs and BSL-2 labs for the
purpose of ISO and GLP compliant.
ii. Equipments (maximum upto Rs 8.00
lakh per unit)
iii. Reagents/ chemicals on recurring
basis.

3. Training Programme/ Seminars / Workshop (100%)

i. Trainings for i. 20 veterinarians in each batch @
veterinarians max. Rs.10, 000/- per veterinarian
ii. Trainings for para- ii. 20 para-veterinarians in each
veterinarians batch) - @ maximum Rs. 7, 000/- per
para-veterinarian
iii. @ Rs. 2.00 lakh per seminar
iii. Workshop/Seminar
(max.)

4. Endo-parasitic control in cattle and buffaloes

The broad-spectrum anthelmintics
will be used. The States are required
to send the proposal with complete
justification including the prevalence
of parasites in the states. The anti-
parasitic drugs would be procured
only through tendering process.
5. Control of emergent and exotic
diseases (60:40 except for activity
No. iii)
States will have to submit the annual
action plan for control of endo parasites
in cattle and buffaloes using anthelmintics
(preferably broad spectrum anthelmintics)
depending upon the prevailing parasite
profile (Nematode, Trematode and
Cestode) in the state.
i. Expenditure on community awareness/
publicity (100 %)
ii. Expenditure on routine collection of
serum/ morbid materials for surveillance
work, ring vaccination and related
activities against exotic and emergent
diseases (100%)
iii. Payment of compensation to farmers
for culling of animals/ birds, elimination
 of infected animals, destruction of
feed/eggs including operational cost
(50:50 basis)
6. Information and communication Funds will be utilized organising animal
campaign including animal health health camps including IEC campaign.
camps
7. Up-gradation of State Vaccine Nine State Vaccine Production Units will
Production Units to GMP standards be strengthened (during Five Year Plan) to
GMP standards for which the states have
to prepare an action plan. The States are
required to send a Detailed Project Report
for consideration in the Department.
Central assistance will be limited to Rs.
10.00 crores only and any expenditure
over and above will be borne by the State
Governments.
 Format for supplying Physical targets and achievements under Assistance to States for Control
of Animal Diseases (ASCAD) during (Year----)

Name of State of ______________

(Exp. Rs. in lakhs)

Target Physical Total Central State Remarks

Achievement exp. Share Share

PHYSICAL

*No. of vaccination
(disease-wise) in lakhs)

i). FMD

ii). HS

iii). BQ

iv). AX

v). ETX

vi). SP

vii). ND (F1/R2B)

viii). FP

ix). Others

TOTAL

I) No. of Biological
production units
upgraded

/strengthened

ii) No. of Disease

diagnostic labs.
upgraded

/strengthened

iii) No. of training

organized for
veterinarian

iv) No. of training

organized for para-
veterinarian

v) No. of
Workshops/Seminars
organized

vi) No. of Awareness

Camps organized at
Block/Village level

vii) No. of Awareness

Camps organized at
District level

viii). Control of
emergent and exotic
diseases- samples tested
etc

ix) Number of State

BP unit upgraded to
GMP level

x) Rabies vaccination
carried out

* This is a tentative list only. The report should include all the activities for which the Action
Plan was approved and the expenditure has been incurred.