Centre in Parliament said there are no plans to declare cow as India’s national animal

S P Singh Baghel said that there is no plan to declare cow as the national animal of India.

S P Singh Baghel, Union Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, recently stated in parliament that there are no plans to declare cow as India’s national animal. The Ministry noted that the government has been implementing the Rashtriya Gokul Mission since 2014 to support and strengthen initiatives for the promotion, protection, and rearing of cows.

Centre says there’s no plan to declare the cow as the national animal of India.

The Centre has no plans to enact any law declaring cows as the national animal, S P Singh Baghel, Union Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, on Tuesday told Parliament. To a question by senior BJP leader and former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat in Lok Sabha, Baghel in his written reply said, “No, Sir. As per Article 246(3) of the Constitution, under the distribution of legislative powers between the Union and the States, the preservation of animals is a matter on which the State legislature has exclusive powers to legislate.”

Baghel talks about milk production.

On milk production, S P Singh Baghel informed the House that cow milk production has contributed 53.12 per cent of the country’s total milk production of 239.30 million tonnes in 2024, while buffalo milk accounted for 43.62 per cent.