🔆 Revised Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM) 📍 Overview ✅ Central Sector Scheme with an additional outlay of ₹1,000 crore ✅ Total Allocation (FY22-26): ₹3,400 crore 📍 Key Components ✅ Heifer Rearing Centres: One-time assistance of 35% of capital cost for setting up 30 housing facilities for 15,000 heifers ✅ Support for High Genetic Merit (HGM) Heifers: 3% interest subvention on loans for purchase of HGM IVF heifers from milk unions/financial institutions 🔆 Rashtriya Gokul Mission (Original) 📍 Aim ✅ Development and conservation of indigenous bovine breeds ✅ Enhancing milk production 📍 Launched ✅ In 2014 under National Programme for Bovine Breeding and Dairy Development 📍 Ongoing Activities under RGM ✅ Strengthening semen stations and artificial insemination (AI) networks ✅ Bull production and breed improvement programs ✅ Skill development and farmer awareness initiatives ✅ Establishing Centres of Excellence and reinforcing Central Cattle Breeding Farms 📍 Key Components ✅ Gokul Grams: Indigenous cattle development centres ✅ National Kamdhenu Breeding Centres: Two centres (one each in North & South) acting as gene banks ✅ E-Pashu Haat Portal: Online platform to trade indigenous breeds and semen 📍 Type of Funding ✅ 100% grant by Central Government (with few exceptions) 📍 Implementing Agency ✅ National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and State Livestock Development Boards