Jaipur31 minutes agoAuthor: Kiran Rajpurohit, State Editor Digital (Rajasthan)
38 thousand 191…
This is the official figure of the animals who lost their lives in the havoc of ‘Lumpi’. But even this false figure (because people say that more than 75 thousand animals have died due to ‘Lumpi’) is also insufficient to tell the dreadful condition of ‘Lumpi’.
Because in this figure you will not see…
Children crying for milk. People crying in every house. Cars carrying cows and calves to the crematorium.
Such a picture of pain and helplessness all around that along with the eyes of a stone hearted person, the nose and ears also weep. There is such a great outbreak of ‘Lumpy’ disease everywhere that these areas are turning into mounds of foul smell.
Dainik Bhaskar’s team traveled 2000 km in three days. Know the situation on the ground of 40 villages of five districts. Due to the outbreak of this disease in Rajasthan, there has been a shortage of 1.40 lakh liters of milk in five districts. There has been a shortage of ghee and milk in 10 cities including Jaipur. Soon there will be a big crisis.
First of all let us know the six painful stories that came out of these villages of Rajasthan.
First story: Quarantine center on the highway like Corona
It was about seven o’clock in the evening. Two pickups passed one by one on Hanumangarh highway in Sardar city. Among them were the carcasses of cows. When asked the car driver, he said – are going to bury the dead cows from the Quarantine Center. Today 34 have died. We were shocked by the name of the Quarantine Center. These names and centers were quite well known during the Corona period.
This picture of the Quarantine Center of Hanumangarh Road in Sardarshahr was disturbing. One after the other the dead cows were being filled in the car.
The center was a short distance away. Here the lumpi victim cow was kept. It was heartbreaking to see the center scene. Insects had pricked the livers of cows and calves. Eyes were popping out. Piles of dead cows were lying in a pickup parked nearby. Going closer and seeing, 8 dead cows were lying one on top of the other.
Gosevak Kundan Pareek told that more than 1200 dead cows have been buried in 15-17 days. The government is not even able to give soil to the dead cows, far from treating the cows. He said that 350 cows are being treated in this centre. Three such centers have been set up in Sardar city alone.
Cows and calves had lost their eyes in the Quarantine Center. They were suffering in such a way that everyone here was praying only one prayer, may God take out their lives soon.
Second story: Yeh Dhore is now a foul smell…
Phogan village of Churu district, situated amidst sand dunes, about 280 km from Jaipur. There is a settlement of about 1250 houses here. We reached the place where thousands of cows are buried in pits for miles. The mounds, which used to attract tourists with a pungent scent, today have the foul smell of the carcasses of cows. The villagers have already dug 150-150 feet long ditch all around.
Several trenches have been dug to bury the cows outside the village of Phogan, where the dead are to be buried. The people of the village say that thousands of cows have been buried in a month.
Third story: Worried about the treatment of wife suffering from cancer, asked for a loan
From here we reached inside Phogan village. Meet Kishanlal. taken to the courtyard. Before we asked anything, the husband and wife started crying. All his cows died. Two of the three were milkmaids.
Wife Guddi Devi said- ‘Calves have been brought on loan to remove the desolation of the house.’ With tearing eyes, Kishanlal said – ‘Sir, not only cows have died, everything has been ruined. 22-year-old daughter Suman is also in a bad condition. There is farming, but that doesn’t happen every day. After our lakhs of efforts, the couple could not stop crying.
We tried to console Kishanlal, who lost his senses due to the death of the cows, but he was just sobbing on the matter.
Kishanlal’s wife Guddi’s eyes are also stoned. They just say – Ram is better than this, he would have picked us up. It was not enough to see the cows dying after mole-til-mole.
Story 4: From where will you get milk for the child?
We reached the house of Bhanwarlal Sharma, who lives in the neighbourhood. His wife Sulochana and daughter Mamta were found crying. An innocent child was crying in her lap.
When asked, Bhanwarlal said- ‘There were two cows. He used to make money by selling milk. Both the cows died of disease. After that, it has become difficult to arrange milk for a year’s double principle. The child cries with hunger. Showing the place where the cows are kept, they say, who will bind here now. One cow was 30 to 40 thousand.
This picture is of Sulochana. She says – you will not agree, but the truth is that this child is crying due to lack of milk. We also bring milk with a bag and give it to us, but there is nothing in our bus.
Village youth Shyam Sundar told that five of his cows died. Works in Assam. When there was a crisis in the village, I had to come home. Roopchand and his wife Sunita told that two of their cows also died. The 20-day old calf of Sanwarmal’s cow was also found in agony.
Story-5: Mounds of cow carcasses formed in the village
In Nagaur district, 89 thousand 633 cows have been infected. Of these, more than 83 thousand 856 thousand are being treated. 32,212 cows recovered after treatment. At the same time 6619 died. However, livestock owners say that the real figure of deaths is much higher.
Cows are being buried throughout the day with the help of tractors and JCBs in the Luni river area of Riyan Badi town with a population of 30 thousand. There have been mounds of heaps of cow carcasses. Manoj told that he has been doing this work since the beginning, but had never thought that he would have to see piles of dead bodies like this.
In Nagaur district, there are heaps of cows on camel carts and belt carts.
Story – 6 : The calf Anjali was brought up as a daughter, the tears are not stopping
Two years ago, a cow gave birth to a calf on the road in front of Hanuman, who had a mobile shop in Riyan Badi, and she died. So he took the calf home. The family named the calf as Anjali. Anjali died last week due to ‘Lumpy’, now the tears of the whole family are not drying up. There is a cow in every third house in the town. There are also 4 big cowsheds. Due to ‘Lumpi’, such a situation has now arisen that cows are seen in agony from house to house.
(Such pain was in every village. There are thousands of true and painful stories, not hundreds.)
Now let us understand the situation arising out of the outbreak of Lumpi and the coming crisis.
There is no milk left in the villages in the villages, in the coming time, there is a sound of big trouble
During the Corona period in Rajasthan, the villages which became true devares (temples) for the people. Today, due to the outbreak of ‘Lumpi’, they are turning into a crematorium. Two cows died in some house and four or five cows died in someone’s courtyard. In some places, the bodies of cows and calves have become so decomposed that they are trying to breathe in agony. The hearts of the onlookers are shaken. Prayers are being made that God pick them up soon. According to government records, more than 38 thousand cows have died in Rajasthan in two months.
Considering Lumpy skin disease as the wrath of the mother, she is taking out trips from place to place and praying to save the cows from this disease. Photo of Nagaur district.
Gandhiji said, real India resides in villages. And the house of these villagers is run by the ghee and milk of these cows and buffaloes. Now neither ghee nor milk is left in the villages. The situation is so bad that even collecting bagged milk to feed innocent children is no less than a challenge. The way the outbreak of ‘Lumpi’ has spread in Rajasthan, the supply of 8 lakh liters per day is getting less than estimated. Along with this, in the coming time, the sound of big crisis of milk and ghee is being seen. There is also the possibility that their prices will also increase rapidly. In the most affected districts, 30-32 percent milk is coming less. This is also when the buffalo starts becoming milky at this time and their milk comes the most.
The disease spread from Gujarat to Jammu and Kashmir
Not only Rajasthan, this disease has spread to other states including Gujarat, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. This year the first case was reported from Gujarat. After this its entry took place in other states including Rajasthan. The situation is similar in Haryana also. Lumpi has spread in 3 thousand villages here.
According to government records in Gujarat, till August 26, the lumpi virus has spread to 22 districts. Of these, Saurashtra-Kutch is the most affected. So far about 4,530 cows have died due to this disease in the state. While 1 lakh 20 thousand 404 cows have been infected. Lumpy has spread in cows in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh also.
More than 3500 cases have been reported in western Uttar Pradesh. This virus has reached about 1500 villages. The supply of cow’s milk has also been stopped in the districts due to this disease. There has also been death.
Ghee production in Jaipur Dairy stood at 10 percent
The situation is that the preparation of ghee has stopped in Barmer, Churu and Jodhpur. Whereas in Jaipur Dairy, the production of ghee remained only 10%. Earlier there used to be a stock of 3 thousand tonnes, but this time only 300 tonnes have remained. Here, the production of ghee in Churu Dairy has stopped. Dairy chairman Lalchand Moond told- One liter of ghee has not been prepared since 20 days.
Milk production reduced by 30 percent
Before the outbreak of ‘Lumpy’ disease, which was 4 lakh 64 thousand liters of milk per day in only five affected districts in Rajasthan. It has come down to 3 lakh 24 thousand liters. One lakh 40 thousand liters per day is getting less i.e. there has been a decrease of about 30 percent. This is decreasing day by day. In other districts also the situation is getting out of control.
Presently 28 lakh liters per day is being collected in Rajasthan. This year an estimated 36 lakh liters was estimated by Saras Dairy only. According to animal experts, the buffalo becomes milky during the rainy season. In such a situation, the crisis is less visible due to the arrival of this milk in the market, but in the coming one month this problem will increase further.
Raising with the help of a bag of salt
Banwari Lal, the sarpanch representative of Phogan village, told that Sumitra, the wife of his brother Ramavatar, is the sarpanch. He is spending money at his level to bury the cows, not getting much help from the government. Salt has been arranged with the help of cow servants. Murlidhar Pareek has formed a team of youth to bury the cows. The youth of the village including Shyam Sundar, Manoj Kumar, Murli, Deendayal, Tolaram, Radheshyam Pareek, Rakesh, Hariom, Prem, Prakash, Sanwarmal, Ramavatar, Ramdutt, Pawan, Raju, Ram Hari have gathered, but nothing but helplessness. able to do
In villages, from children to youth groups are going from house to house to save the cows. Also, helping with the burial.
Scary truth from Corona…., there were 9627 deaths
There were 9627 deaths in Rajasthan during the entire Corona period. Although there is no direct relation to the death of cows with these numbers, but one thing is being said in every village that a big disease has come from corona in animals. In such a situation, knowing this number becomes necessary somewhere. More than 38 thousand cows have died from Lumpi.
Scary situation seen in five districts
In Govansh ki Pali, Barmer, Nagaur, Jodhpur, Churu district, we found more than one horror story. She was going to cry. There was also a warning that if these deaths were not stopped, the cows would perish. Apart from this, the ‘Lumpy’ virus has reached all the districts of Rajasthan. About 8 lakh 74 thousand 242 cows have been infected.
This picture is scary…
