Recently, the Telangana High Court asked the state government to provide adequate funds to the goshalas through the State Animal Welfare Board by stressing that it is primarily the executive function of the state to look after and maintain goshalas.

“It is primarily the executive function of the state to look after and maintain goshalas, therefore, the state should provide adequate funds to the goshalas,”
the bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice C. V. Bhaskar Reddy ordered while also stressing that the state has a duty to maintain cows and calves which are generally housed in goshalas.

“Instead of leaving it to the Board to earn the funds for itself, the State should provide adequate financial assistance to the Board so that it can maintain, manage and look after the goshalas functioning in the state of Telangana,” the court further ordered.

The petition seeks direction to the state government to make provisions for green grass, feed, and fodder besides medicines for the cows and other animals housed in the state goshalas and to allocate funds for the goshalas.

The goshalas are normally established by any person, trust, board, NGO, etc, and are maintained by funds generated through donations, etc, and whenever the government was approached, the Goshalas were provided veterinary aid for the treatment of cattle, the state said before the court.

“Either reconstitute Telangana State Animal Welfare Board or extend its constitution for such period as may be deemed necessary,” the Court ordered while noting that neither the State Animal Welfare Board had been reconstituted nor its term was extended.