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Essential handbooks5 documents
Start with these five
The five to read first: the law itself, the module behind animal birth control, and the handbooks that explain the law to the officials who apply it.
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960
The Act as published in the Gazette of India on 27 December 1960: what counts as cruelty, the penalties, and the Animal Welfare Board of India it set up.
20 pagesPDF 942 KB
Revised Animal Birth Control Module
AWBI's revised module on caring for community dogs through sterilisation and vaccination, ending rabies, and helping people and dogs live together, under the ABC Rules, 2023.
147 pagesAbout 2 hoursPDF 3.4 MB
Animal Law Handbook for Urban Local Bodies
AWBI's handbook for municipal bodies: the constitutional and legal framework for managing animals, from animal birth control to cattle premises and disease.
66 pages35 min readPDF 3.3 MB
Law Enforcement Handbook on Animal Welfare Laws
AWBI's ready reference for enforcement officers: the laws protecting animals, and the procedure from a complaint to its investigation, kind by kind of cruelty.
99 pagesAbout 1 hourPDF 4.3 MB
Handbook for Veterinary Officers on Animal Welfare Laws
AWBI's ready reference to the statutory duties of veterinary officers, and the procedure they follow in cases of cruelty to animals.
57 pages35 min readPDF 4.2 MB
Handbooks and training manuals9 documents
Manuals for the people who do the work
Manuals and guides for municipal bodies, police, farms, companies and veterinary services, several of them from Uttar Pradesh.
ABC Training Blue Book, Nagar Nigam, Lucknow
Lucknow Nagar Nigam's training guide for humane management of community dogs: how its Animal Birth Control training is organised, run and assessed.
84 pages25 min readPDF 5.0 MB
Delhi Police Handbook
For Delhi Police: the protocol for cruelty complaints and the laws that apply in Delhi, chapter by chapter from community dogs to dairies and slaughterhouses.
58 pagesAbout 1 hourPDF 2.3 MB
UP UD Handbook
A handbook for Uttar Pradesh's urban local bodies on managing the animals in their areas, with the laws and court judgments behind that duty.
69 pagesIn HindiPDF 28 MB
EY - Transitioning to Cage-Free
EY's roadmap for companies in India's egg supply chain moving to cage-free eggs: where India stands, what is driving the shift, and the way forward.
32 pages35 min readPDF 5.8 MB
Package Of Practices For Organized Pig Farms
From ICAR's National Research Centre on Pig: breeds, breeding, care, housing, feeding, reproduction and transport on organised pig farms.
151 pagesAbout 2½ hoursPDF 4.6 MB
Kanha Gaushala, Govt of UP
The management manual for Kanha Gaushalas, the Government of Uttar Pradesh's shelters for cattle.
94 pagesIn HindiPDF 65 MB
Shvaan Pashu
Uttar Pradesh's 2023 advisory manual on the management of dogs, from the state's Urban Development department.
66 pagesIn HindiPDF 21 MB
Minimum Standards for Veterinary Infrastructure
The Government of India's minimum standards for four tiers of veterinary institutions, from primary care centres to state polyclinics: buildings, staff, services.
44 pages25 min readPDF 8.1 MB
Research and policy briefs2 documents
The evidence, in brief
Evidence and argument for policy makers.
SCC Policy Brief
Healthy Herds, Safer Milk: somatic cell count (SCC), the measure of udder infection and milk quality India does not regulate, and the case for a national limit.
32 pages30 min readPDF 38 MB
Hidden Costs of Piggery Operations in India
How India's unregulated piggery sector threatens public health: the waste piggery units discard, its impact, and what should change.
32 pages35 min readPDF 6.7 MB
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