Author(s):

Anupama Jena and Mahesh Chander

Abstract: Mobile Veterinary Unit (MVU) is an ingenious way of livestock service delivery extending services to farmers’ doorstep is being operational under the Rastriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) in all the 314 blocks of Odisha. The study was carried in one of the remotest district i.e. Kandhamal district of Orissa to assess the types of services delivered by MVU in the distantly located villages, as per the views of service providers i.e. both Veterinary Surgeons (V.Ss) and Livestock Inspectors (L.Is) of MVU. The study came out with the conclusion that, MVU was not only concerned with supply driven services but also concerned towards many of the demand driven services like outbreak of disease, flood, fire and road accident etc. Among the supply driven services they were emphasizing towards vaccination, awareness camp and deworming activities, whereas, provision of curative and diagnostic services at field level was not adequate due to certain reasons like curative services need constant follow-up and for diagnostic services good facilities were not available at field level. In case of emergency situations the MVU professionals were getting information mostly from public sources, so telephone as a source of information lagging behind in the study area. In those situations they were trying to reach the location as early feasible, which mostly varied between within 1 hr. to 2-4 hrs. depending on the distance of the area. Coming to the importance service providers attached to the services, “more farmer awareness programmes” was ranked top and they believed more of activities of this kind in MVU will improve the service delivery and will make it a better intervention.

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