A special team has been allotted in Gujarat to do this sensitive job to insert a chip in cows.Thousands of cows are being mapped and will soon have unique IDs almost on the lines of Aadhaar cards.It is inserted in the ears of cows.For the digital tracking of cows, a Radio Frequency Identification Device is being used, say officials. The state government says the project is aimed not just at monitoring the health of cows and their productivity and but also at tracking the illegal sale or theft of the animal.The government does it only for its goodness
The state "Gauseva and Gauchar Vikas Board" has set up a central server system at its headquarters in Gandhinagar to collate all the data.A team of experts from the board are covering around 200 cowsheds and animal shelters and inserting a small needle—shaped chip into the earlobe of cows to create a digital identity. All information on the animal will then be stored digitally.
"The name of the shelter, the name of the cattle, colour types, breed, shape of the horns, date of birth and productivity will all be fed into a central server,'' said project coordinator, Kiran Balikai.The first phase of the project will cost the state government about Rs. 2.8 crores and cover pure-breed cows of the Gir, Kankrej and Dangi variety.
All the dtails collected will be transformed to the central database to maintain the record of the cattle available in cow sheds.
