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State considers sale of cow urine in milk booths
Saturday November 19 2005 00:00 IST
BHOPAL: Trust the BJP to be seized with momentous issues like the struggle over its leadership, debate over its ideology - and the effectiveness of cow urine.
Uma Bharti had repeatedly underlined the importance of a “cow-based” economy but the government of her successor Babulal Gaur - no friend of Bharti's - has gone where no BJP Government has gone before: it plans to sell cow's urine (gomutra) with milk in co-operative dairy milk booths across Madhya Pradesh.
The M P State Dairy Federation, with more than 1,500 such booths, has swallowed the idea extending it to cover “medicines and cosmetics” made from the extract of cow urine and cow dung.
This is the brain child of Archana Chitnis, State Minister for Animal Husbandry under which the MP Gauseva Ayog. “Science has proved that urine of the Indian breed of cow has medicinal properties,” Chitnis told this website’s newspaper.
“We want the society at large to benefit from it. Why should people be put off by products based on cow urine?”
Good question except that there has not been one response to a government ad asking gaushalas (cowsheds) and NGOs to “carry the project forward.” But officials aren't deterred. They say the ad will be issued again.
Said Dairy Federation managing director K C Gupta,”We have agreed in principle. We will accept products that are duly certified and hygienic.” A federation official said that vendors would get a commission and will have the option to stop selling cow urine if its presence affects the sale of milk or milk products.
Chitnis, however, has bigger plans. She said that if sale picked up - a big if - the new experiment might even revitalise gaushalas since the product will be sourced from there.
“They want to promote a certain ideology and the experiment is just an extension of it. Why should they select milk booths when they can sell gomutra from other places?” asked general secretary of BSP Narmada Prasad. “They have an agenda and they may even line up people outside the booths to show that it's successful.”
But there are takers. “Everyday, we distribute fresh cow urine to 30 to 40 people who line up outside the temple in the morning. Many more will have access to it if it's sold from milk booths,” said K L Chakravarty, who manages the Gayatri Temple in Bhopal's M P Nagar locality, probably the only place where cow urine and products made from it are sold.
Obviously, he doesn't mind competition.
http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems...ation&Topic=0&
Saturday November 19 2005 00:00 IST
BHOPAL: Trust the BJP to be seized with momentous issues like the struggle over its leadership, debate over its ideology - and the effectiveness of cow urine.
Uma Bharti had repeatedly underlined the importance of a “cow-based” economy but the government of her successor Babulal Gaur - no friend of Bharti's - has gone where no BJP Government has gone before: it plans to sell cow's urine (gomutra) with milk in co-operative dairy milk booths across Madhya Pradesh.
The M P State Dairy Federation, with more than 1,500 such booths, has swallowed the idea extending it to cover “medicines and cosmetics” made from the extract of cow urine and cow dung.
This is the brain child of Archana Chitnis, State Minister for Animal Husbandry under which the MP Gauseva Ayog. “Science has proved that urine of the Indian breed of cow has medicinal properties,” Chitnis told this website’s newspaper.
“We want the society at large to benefit from it. Why should people be put off by products based on cow urine?”
Good question except that there has not been one response to a government ad asking gaushalas (cowsheds) and NGOs to “carry the project forward.” But officials aren't deterred. They say the ad will be issued again.
Said Dairy Federation managing director K C Gupta,”We have agreed in principle. We will accept products that are duly certified and hygienic.” A federation official said that vendors would get a commission and will have the option to stop selling cow urine if its presence affects the sale of milk or milk products.
Chitnis, however, has bigger plans. She said that if sale picked up - a big if - the new experiment might even revitalise gaushalas since the product will be sourced from there.
“They want to promote a certain ideology and the experiment is just an extension of it. Why should they select milk booths when they can sell gomutra from other places?” asked general secretary of BSP Narmada Prasad. “They have an agenda and they may even line up people outside the booths to show that it's successful.”
But there are takers. “Everyday, we distribute fresh cow urine to 30 to 40 people who line up outside the temple in the morning. Many more will have access to it if it's sold from milk booths,” said K L Chakravarty, who manages the Gayatri Temple in Bhopal's M P Nagar locality, probably the only place where cow urine and products made from it are sold.
Obviously, he doesn't mind competition.
http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems...ation&Topic=0&
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