Wednesday, 18 June 2025
The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, organised a National Stakeholder workshop on the National Action Plan to combat Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR).
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week is held every year from November 18-24. The Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying, with support from Food and Agriculture Organization, plans to review and revise the NAP for 2022 to 2025 for the livestock sector. The stakeholder workshop addressed the revision of the National Action Plan for 2022-2025 with a special focus on Anti-Microbial Resistance activities implementable through the animal husbandry sector.
The inauguration session of the workshop was addressed by Parshottam Rupala, Minister, Fisheries Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Dr Loganathan Murugan, Minister of State of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Atul Chaturvedi, Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Upamanyu Basu, Joint Secretary, (Livestock Health), TomioShichiri, FAO Country Representative, India, Dr Hirofumi Kugita, OIE, Regional Representative, Japan, JatindraNath Swain, Secretary, Department of Fisheries, and Dr Praveen Malik, Animal Husbandry Commissioner, Govt of India. The Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying shared concerns of AMR in aquatic animals as well as livestock and committed towards effective implementation of the One Health framework.
The technical sessions witnessed discussion on improving awareness and understanding of AMR through effective communication, education, and training, strengthening knowledge and evidence through surveillance, reducing the incidence of infection through effective infection prevention and control, optimising the use of antimicrobial agents in health, animals, and food, promoting investments for AMR activities, research, and innovations, and strengthening India’s leadership on AMR. The workshop saw the participation of experts from the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, National Centre for Disease Control, World Health Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization, World Organisation for Animal Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank, Poultry Associations, International Livestock Research Institute, State Animal Husbandry Departments, Veterinary Universities, Central disease Diagnostic Laboratories, among others. A special issue of the Indian Journal of Comparative Microbiology Immunology and Infectious diseases focused on AMR was released at the workshop.
