After the establishment of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, a number of new programmes/colleges/schools/centres had been established in the varsity to cater to the needs of livestock sector. University is developing good infrastructure for the smooth sailing of these establishments. To create more facilities Dr VK Taneja, Vice-Chancellor laid foundation stones of two different units. These are buildings of School of Animal Biotechnology, School of Public Health and Zoonoses and Small Animal referral Hospital. Department of Animal Biotechnology was establish in Jan, 2008 which was upgraded to School of Animal Biotechnology in 2010 with a broad mandate to foster Integrative & Collaborative Research in different areas of Molecular Biology for enhancing livestock health & production and to impart quality education and training for producing professionally qualified and trained human resources in the field of molecular biology and biotechnology.
Similarly School of Public Health and Zoonoses was established in January, 2012 realizing the importance of safe and clean food from animals for consumers, better human health and clean environment. The school has directed its efforts in the area of food safety, quality control, environmental contaminant residues analysis and rapid detection of zoonotic diseases for promoting healthy and safe life of people and community. Realizing the need for having a separate infrastructure setup, a separate building is being constructed for the School of Public Health and Zoonoses. The new building will have state of the art laboratories, lecture/seminar halls, Central instrumentation lab with self-contained facilities to fulfill the research mandates of both the schools. New building will have Food safety and Quality control lab, Water testing , Zoonotic disease diagnostic, Pesticide residue analysis, Heavy and toxic metal residue and drug residue analysis Laboratories with latest facilities.
The second building was new small animal referral hospital near the Silver Jubliee Block. With the increasing number of animal patients, there was a need to construct a new small animal referral hospital with the latest facilities related to diagnostic and treatment. The new building will contain all the diagnostic facilities under one roof which will include radiology, endoscopy, ultrasound, echocardiography, clinical laboratory and operation theatres with all advanced diagnostic equipment. It will serve the best clinical teaching for the undergraduate/postgraduate veterinarians along with the best treatment to the sick animals.
Dr SPS Sangha, DSW cum Estate Officer said that the projects will be completed in 18 months and combined cost will be about Rs. 25 crores. Buildings will be eco-friendly with solar heated water system, rain water harvesting and equipped with ramps and lifts.
