Revised 2005 government of pakistan planning commission

REVISED 2005

REVISED PC-I

STRENGTHENING & REHABILITATION OF EXISTING VETERINARY INSTITUTIONS IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA

From Financial Year 2012-13 TO 2014-15

(Rs.189.900 million as Capital + Rs.34.448 million as Revenue Cost)

REVISED 2005

1. 
   Name of the Project:
   

2. 
   Location of the Project:
   

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  Provide name of districts and province:
  

1) Provincial HQ CVH Peshawar, 2) Nowshehra, 3) Mardan, 4) Swabi, 5) Buner, 6) Swat, 7) Dir Upper, 8) Dir Lower, 09) Batkhela Malakand, 10) Chitral, 11) Karak, 12) Bannu, 13) Lakki Marwat, 14) D.I.Khan, 15) Hangu and Other then District HQ CVHs 1) Bada Bair Peshawar, 2) Sher Garh Mardan, 3) Parkho Dheri Mardan, 4) Asban Dir Lower, 5) Samar Bagh Dir Lower, 6) Mayar Dir Lower, 7) Martung Shangla, 8) Ghazi Haripur, 9) Lachi Kohat are to be rehabilitated through construction of proper buildings & infrastructure. The categorically detail of the Veterinary Institutions, PDWP approved and revised estimated cost, which will/are to be incurred/allocated on each unit is shown in Annexure-4 (Civil Works Detailed Cost Estimates).

3. 
   Authorities responsible for:
   

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  Indicate name of the agency responsible for sponsoring, execution, operation and maintenance:
  

1. 
   Sponsoring
   

1. 
   Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperative Department, Peshawar.
   

2. 
   Execution
   

1. 
   Director General, Livestock and Dairy Development Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
   
2. 
   Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Works & Services Department, Peshawar.
   
3. 
   Project Director, Strengthening and Rehabilitation of Existing Veterinary Institutions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Headquarter at Peshawar.
   

3. 
   Operation and maintenance
   

1. 
   Project Director, Strengthening and Rehabilitation of Existing Veterinary Institutions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Headquarter at Peshawar.
   
2. 
   District Livestock Officers, Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshehra, Mardan, Swabi, Kohat, Karak, Hangu, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, D.I.Khan, Tank, Swat, Buner, Shangla, Malakand, Dir Lower, Dir Upper, Chitral, Haripur, Abbottabad, Mansehra, Battagram, Tor Ghar and Kohistan.
   
3. 
   Works & Services Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
   
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  In case of more than one agency, give their component wise responsibility. For provincial projects, name of the concerned federal ministry be provided:
  

1. 
   Director General (Extension) Livestock and Dairy Development Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar will be responsible for overall supervision of the project implementation and to procure all the project inputs.
   
2. 
   Project Director, Strengthening and Rehabilitation of Existing Veterinary Institutions, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Project Staff and Director, Animal Health & Production, Livestock & Dairy Development Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar will be responsible to plan, execute, operate and monitor all the activities of the project & submit the physical & financial progress/review reports on regular basis to high-ups.
   
3. 
   All the District Directors Livestock together with all the Senior Veterinary Officers (SVOs) of the concerned District HQ CVHs/Veterinary Institutions of L&DD Department in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Project staff will be responsible for implementation & monitoring of the project activities at field level in the targeted areas. He will also responsible for submission of progress reports on monthly & quarterly basis.
   
4. 
   The C&W Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will be responsible to carry out the civil works (construction and development work) on the 24 identified sites of 18 Settled Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under the project as well as to monitor the implementation progress of their activities and furnish the monitoring reports on regular basis to the quarters concerned. The C&W Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will also make it sure that the construction work must be completed within the stipulated time/period, so that the Livestock & Poultry Services providing activities of the L&DD department could not be suffered.
   

4. 
   (a) Plan provision
   

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  If the project is included in the medium term/five year plan, specify actual allocation.
  

In the current Print ADP 2014-15, the umbrella project is reflected at General Serial No.28 with On-going (Revised) status with the same approved cost i.e. 200.000 million. A sum of Rs.100.616 million (Rs.91.000 million as Capital + Rs.9.616 million as Revenue Cost) is also allocated for the current financial year, 2014-15.

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  If not included in the current plan, what warrants its inclusion and how is it now proposed to be accommodated.
  

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  If the project is proposed to be financed out of block provision, indicate:
  

Total block provision	Amount already committed	Amount proposed for this project	Balance available
Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable

2. 
   Provision in the current year PSDP/ADP
   

5. 
   Project Objectives:
   

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  The objectives of the sector/sub-sector as indicated in the medium term/five year plan be reproduced. Indicate objectives of the project and linkage between the proposed project and the Sectoral objective.
  

1. 
   Enhance productivity of existing livestock, dairy, poultry and fisheries resources through development of new technologies, scientific methods of farming and improved management practices. (In line with the project)
   
2. 
   Exploits export potential of livestock, dairy, poultry and fisheries and their products. (In line with the project)
   
3. 
   Promote import substitution of milk and dairy products.
   
4. 
   Ensure availability of credit for livestock farmers, especially the landless ones and to Improve livestock marketing infrastructure. (In line with the project)
   
5. 
   Strengthen institutions for livestock research and extension and improve their linkages and coordination. (In line with the project)
   

The overall objective of the project is in complete harmony with the objective of the livestock sector outlined in MTDF and thus is aiming to enhance the socio-economic status of the rural population through provision of effective animal health, diagnostic and breed improvement services throughout the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Activities will include animal health, poultry development and breed improvement services.

To improve the socio-economic status of the rural and urban population through provision of effective animal health and diagnostic, breed improvement and artificial insemination services, and to provide teaching as well as research opportunities for the students of veterinary colleges, universities, and technical staff and farmer community.

1. 
   To provide better animal health and artificial insemination services to commercial dairy farmers and subsistence farmer.
   
2. 
   To provide better livestock & poultry disease diagnostic lab facilities to the livestock and poultry farming communities at their District HQ level Civil Veterinary Hospitals.
   
3. 
   To improve the management Practices of the farming communities, thereby enhancing the productivity of their livestock.
   
4. 
   To provide teaching and research opportunities for the veterinary colleges, university students, technical staff and farmer community.
   

1. 
   Reconstruct and rehabilitate the damaged and dilapidated 24 identified Veterinary Institutions including 01 (one) Provincial HQ Civil Veterinary Teaching Hospital, 14 (Fourteen) District HQ Civil Veterinary Hospitals and 09 (Nine) Other than District HQ Civil Veterinary Hospitals in the 18 (Eighteen) Settled Districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which will bring them improved/better functional condition.
   
2. 
   Strengthened the Provincial HQ & all the Divisional HQ Level Civil Veterinary Hospitals through provision of Portable Ultrasound Machines.
   
3. 
   Provision of advanced animal health, artificial insemination and diagnostic, etc. equipments/instruments.
   
4. 
   Provision of necessary furniture/fixture and other stock/store items.
   
5. 
   Provision of other miscellaneous consume-able and unconsumed-able stock/store items e.g. Drugs/Medicines, Sera/Vaccines, Chemicals, Glassware’s, etc. etc.
   
6. 
   Provision of animal health care, disease diagnostic, livestock production and extension services to the livestock & progressive farmers at their door step (indoor/outdoor OPD).
   
7. 
   Provision of favorable environment for the Veterinary Graduates and Para Vets in advanced veterinary techniques for their capacity building
   
8. 
   Provision of House Job facilities for the DVM Degree Course Students of various Universities.
   
9. 
   Capacity building of farmers in improved animal husbandry techniques and management practices.
   

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  Encouraging environment will be created for providing improved and effective animal health care, diagnostic, breed improvement, artificial insemination and livestock production extension services to the livestock farmers round the clock.
  
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  The income of the poor rural land-less and small farm livestock holders will increase substantively by reducing the mortality and morbidity of their livestock.
  
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  Management Practices of farmers improved and increased in livestock production.
  
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  Capacity building of the employees of the department as well as farmers for increased milk and meat production.
  

In short, the main focus of the project is to strengthen and rehabilitate the existing District HQ Level and other Civil Veterinary Hospitals as learning and practically oriented institutes of the respective Districts and would play a vital role for the livestock & poultry development throughout the province. Moreover, to strengthen the veterinary health services, breed improvement and livestock extension services to the community. Thus the project objectives are directly related to increase milk, meat and egg production in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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  In case of revised project, indicate objective of the project if different from original PC-I.
  

The details of project costs i.e. Original & the proposed Revised Cost is as under:

1. 
   Original Approved Cost Rs.200 million (Rs.165.552 million as Capital + Rs.34.448 million as Revenue Cost)
   
2. 
   Proposed Revised Cost Rs.224.348 million (Rs.189.900 million as Capital + Rs.34.448 million as Revenue Cost)
   

6. 
   Description, justification and technical parameters
   

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  Describe the project and indicate existing facilities in the area and justify the establishment of the project.
  

Livestock plays an important role in the economy of the country in general and of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in particular. It contributes over 11.9 % to the national GDP which is more than the aggregated contribution of entire crop sector (54% of Agriculture Sector) of the country. It contributes 13% to the overall export earnings of the country. Livestock sector provides employment opportunities to majority of the rural people. About 35 Million people of rural areas are engaged in raising Livestock and deriving 30-40% of their income from animal production. It is an integral part of socio-economic activities of rural areas and plays a very supportive role and mitigating the effects of poverty by providing essential items of daily use. In addition, Livestock provides milk and meat for daily consumption to the over increasing human population, draught power for cropping and rural transport, field yard manure for soil fertilization, raw material for industrial products; hides, skins and wool for earning of foreign exchange. It is also responsible for supplying 16% of the total household energy requirements in the form of dung.

According to Livestock Census 2006, the provincial livestock herd of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa comprises of 5.95 million cattle, 1.93 million buffaloes, 3.36 million sheep and 9.10 million goats 0.064 million camels, 0.076 million horses, 0.0666 million mules and 0.539 million asses and with a well supportive backyard poultry of 27.69 million. The Provincial livestock sector accounts for around 17% of the provincial GDP. Over 80% of the population is dependent on livestock and agriculture as their main source of livelihood. Majority of the families combine smallholder crop production with livestock rearing.

To protect and improve animal health and exploit optimum production potentials of animal resources, the provincial department of livestock and Dairy Development has established a network of about 900 Veterinary hospitals/ dispensaries/ centers in the entire province manned with 270 qualified veterinary graduates and 1064 Para-vets, providing curative and prophylactic health coverage, artificial insemination services and capacity building services to the livestock farmers.

Most of the District Head Quarter Veterinary hospitals in the province were established before or soon after the Provincial Livestock and Dairy Development (L&DD) Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Previously NWFP) came into being in 1927. The hospitals constructed long ago, have lost their utility, firstly because the buildings are in deplorable condition and secondly being very old these hospitals are not meeting the present day requirements of quality service delivery.

2. 
   JUSTIFICATION OF THE PROJECT:
   

To meet the growing demand for animal protein, increase in quantity alone will not serve the purpose in this age of globalization and information technology. This is the age of quality and standards. Increase in quantity must be supported by an adequate level of quality. Consumers are becoming more and more quality conscious. It will include the integration of all processes and functions from rearing, feeding and husbandry of food animals to the health care facilities, production environment, processing, marketing and delivery to the consumers. Keeping quality standards at all these levels can only guarantee sustainability in the international market. Institutions providing health care facilities are the ones amongst such functions of quality concern.

Human health is inextricably linked to animal health and production. This link between human and animal populations, and with the surrounding environment, is particularly close in our socioeconomic culture where animals provide transportation, draught power, fuel and clothing as well as proteins (meat, eggs and milk). However, this can lead a serious risk to public health with severe economic consequences. A number of communicable diseases (known as zoonoses) are transmitted from animals to humans.

About 75% of the new diseases that have affected humans over the past 10 years have been caused by pathogens originating from an animal or from products of animal origin. Many of these diseases have the potential to spread through various means over long distances and to become global problems.

In addition a number of well known and preventable animal diseases that can be transmitted to humans (i.e. zoonoses) such as rabies, brucellosis and echinococcosis continue to occur in many parts of the province where they mostly affect the poorest segment of the human population. They cause a serious illness mostly ending with death especially in case of rabies. Major zoonotic diseases prevent the efficient production of food of animal origin, particularly of much-needed proteins, and create obstacles to trade in animals and animal products. They are thus an impediment to overall socioeconomic development. Therefore Veterinary medicine plays a major role in the prevention of and interventions against animal diseases including zoonoses. Therefore proactive response to animal diseases is safeguarding the human health and life.

Since last several years, the need of standard teaching hospitals in the province was highly felt, especially when Pakistan Veterinary Medical Council reviewed the syllabus of DVM degree program and announced a uniform syllabus for DVM degree program in 2001, comprising post-intermediate 5 years education in 10 semesters with practical internship of the last semester in the final year. None of the existing Veterinary Hospitals in the province could meet the requirements of a standard teaching hospital; hence reconstruction and rehabilitation of these hospitals for teaching purpose was highly needed.

2. 
   DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT:
   

The instant project is under implementation through provision of necessary inputs to all the existing District Headquarters Civil Veterinary Hospitals. Under this program, 24 numbers of existing veterinary institutions including 15 District Headquarters Level Civil Veterinary Hospitals & 09 other Tehsil/Town level Civil Veterinary Hospitals are to be reconstructed and rehabilitated in the 18 Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as per detail given below.