Overview

• Overcrowding placed roughly 1,200 kodelu in a facility built for 450–500 cattle, leading to health declines and 13 deaths within 48 hours
• The relaunch allocates 300 bulls to eligible farmers with geo-tagging to ensure accountability and proper maintenance
• A veterinary camp at Thippapur has saved 16 kodelu through prompt treatment and administered LSD vaccinations to about 500 animals
• BRS leader Chalmeda Lakshmi Narasimha Rao accused officials of negligence over fodder shortages and demanded a new 50-acre goshala along with action against those responsible
• First introduced in July 2024 to ease the goshala’s burden, the free distribution scheme was suspended six months later after allegations of misuse