The government has launched the National Digital Livestock Mission (NDLM) to create a comprehensive digital database of livestock and related services across the country, the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying informed Parliament.
The mission aims to enhance livestock productivity and breed improvement, strengthen disease surveillance and control, enable traceability of livestock products and create a farmer-centric digital ecosystem for efficient service delivery. The NDLM has been successfully implemented in all states, including districts such as Etah, Kasganj, Etawah, Auraiya, Mainpuri, Kannauj and Aonla in Uttar Pradesh.
As per official data, the National Digital Livestock Mission (NDLM) has been implemented across all States, with a large number of livestock owners and their animals registered on the platform. So far, around 9.5 crore livestock owners have been registered and 35.96 crore animals have been issued Pashu Aadhaar under the system.
The digital backbone of the mission is the ‘Bharat Pashudhan’ platform, which includes mobile and web-based applications used by field workers to record livestock-related activities. Each animal is assigned a unique 12-digit bar-coded ear tag, which serves as its digital identity. Using this system, field workers capture data on animal registration, artificial insemination and breeding, ownership changes, vaccinations, disease reporting, milk recording, ration balancing and e-prescriptions.
According to the ministry, around 4 lakh field worker user IDs have been issued so far. The system has recorded over 146.6 crore vaccination entries and more than 250 crore transactional records, reflecting the scale and reach of the digital initiative.
The key objectives of the NDLM include improving breeding outcomes suited to India’s diverse agro-climatic conditions, enabling real-time disease monitoring and control, and establishing a robust traceability mechanism for livestock products. The traceability framework is expected to support branding, market access and consumer confidence, while also benefiting exporters and processors.
The mission also focuses on empowering farmers by providing easy access to information on government schemes and livestock-related services. To this end, the ‘1962 Livestock Owner App’ has been developed and integrated with the NDLM database. The app allows farmers to view details of their registered animals and access information on schemes and programmes of the department. The earlier e-Gopala application has been subsumed under this new platform.
Major livestock programmes such as the Rashtriya Gokul Mission and the National Animal Disease Control Programme are already operating through the NDLM platform, ensuring convergence and better service delivery.
The database has been built on an open-source, API-enabled architecture, allowing seamless integration with banks, insurance companies, private veterinarians and other stakeholders in the livestock sector.
This information was provided by Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Rajeev Ranjan Singh in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.
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