(a) whether the subject of Draught Animal Power (DAP) has been allotted to your Ministry:
(b) if so, whether while going through Annual Report and advertisements, there is no mention of DAP:
(c) whether Planning Commission recommended that DAP be transferred to Department of Animal Husbandry: and
(d) if so, the present status thereof?
MINISTER OF STATE FOR NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY SOURCES (INDEPENDENT CHARGE), (SHRI M. KANNAPPAN)
(a): Yes, Sir.
(b): Yes, Sir. Draught Animal Power has not been included in the Annual Report 2000-2001 and advertisements of Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources (MNES) because Ministry of Finance had decided that Animal Energy would be one of the programmes of the Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources which would be weeded out and therefore only a provision of Rs ten lakhs was made in the Annual Plan 2000-2001 for meeting committed liabilities.
(c): The Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources has not received any communication from Planning Commission regarding the transfer of DAP to Department of Animal Husbandry However, MNES had taken up with the Department of Animal Husbandry regarding the transfer of the Draught Animal Power programme from MNES to the Department of Animal Husbandry (DAH), but DAH had not accepted the transfer.
(d): The Ministry has decided to again take up the transfer of the Draught Animal Energy programme to the Department of Animal Husbandry.