{"id":27673,"date":"2025-11-08T05:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27673"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:55:36","slug":"empowered-committee-for-animal-health-ecah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/empowered-committee-for-animal-health-ecah\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Empowered Committee for Animal Health (ECAH)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Empowered Committee for Animal Health (ECAH):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Established in 2021, ECAH serves as the Department of Animal <strong>Husbandry and Dairying\u2019s (DAHD\u2019s) think tank,providing<\/strong> evidence-based insights and <strong>policy recommendations on national health programs,emerging disease threats,<\/strong> One Health initiatives, and regulatory <strong>frameworks for veterinary vaccines<\/strong>, drugs, and biologicals.<\/li>\n<li>It brings together various animal health experts to collaborate on achieving the completion of its goals.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It was setup <strong>under the aegis of<\/strong> the <strong>Office of Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA)<\/strong> to the Government of India.\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>chaired b<\/strong>y the <strong>Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA<\/strong>), Government of India, and <strong>vice-chaired by<\/strong> the <strong>Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying<\/strong> (DAHD), Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Fisheries.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>members<\/strong> represented on the committee <strong>include experts from<\/strong> the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/central-drugs-standard-control-organization-cdsco\/\" target=\"_blank\">Central Drug Standard Control Organization (<strong>CDSCO<\/strong>)<\/a>, the <strong>Department of Biotechnology<\/strong> (DBT), the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (<strong>ICAR<\/strong>), the Indian Council of Medical Research (<strong>ICMR<\/strong>), the <strong>Indian Veterinary Research Institute<\/strong> (IVRI), the <strong>Veterinary Council of India<\/strong> (VCI), and <strong>prominent academics<\/strong> from notable veterinary institutes and industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>ECAH is focused on <strong>creating resilient, farmer-centric animal health systems<\/strong> in India and bringing forth changes to ensure the <strong>long<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>term success of India\u2019s livestock sector by<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Acting as a think tank<\/strong> to provide inputs on animal health programmes of national importance.<\/li>\n<li>Streamlining and <strong>improving the process of regulatory approval<\/strong> to protect public, animal health, and the environment by <strong>examining the safety<\/strong>, efficacy, and<strong> quality of veterinary products.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Overseeing and supporting programmes\/initiatives to drive uptake of innovative practices in the Indian animal health sector.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Assessing the threat of<\/strong> and <strong>offering guidance on emerging animal diseases <\/strong>that have epidemic\/pandemic potential.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is the Central Drug Standard Control Organization (CDSCO)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the National Regulatory Authority (NRA) of India for the medical devices industry under the provisions of the Drugs &amp; Cosmetics Rules. It works under the Ministry of Health &amp; Family Welfare. Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) is the head of the CDSCO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Empowered Committee for Animal Health serves as the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD\u2019s) think tank and brings together various animal health experts to collaborate on achieving the completion of its goals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}