{"id":6395,"date":"2025-02-28T09:17:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T03:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:35:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:05:53","slug":"what-is-the-animal-welfare-board-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-animal-welfare-board-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Welfare Board of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Animal Welfare Board of India Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The central government plans to change the Animal Welfare Board&#8217;s old guidelines to make them more relevant in the current scenario as well as ensure their effective implementation as part of efforts to prevent cruelty towards animals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Animal Welfare Board of India\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>statutory body<\/strong> set up in 1962 in accordance with Section 4 of the <strong>Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was started under the <strong>stewardship ofLate Smt. Rukmini Devi Arundale<\/strong>, a well-known humanitarian.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>mandate <\/strong>of the Board is to <strong>promote animal welfare<\/strong> in general and to <strong>protect animals from<\/strong> being <strong>subjected to unnecessary pain o<\/strong>r suffering, in particular.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters: Chennai<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>advises state and central governments<\/strong> on the issues related to animal welfare, including cruelty meted out to animals.<\/li>\n<li>The AWBI <strong>periodically addresses the letters to the State Governments<\/strong> and UTs regarding the complaints received and requests them to take necessary action against the offenders as per law.\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>State Authorities<\/strong> are <strong>empowered to initiate appropriate action against<\/strong> the <strong>offenders <\/strong>meting out cruelty to animals and to take action as per the law.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>AWBI also <strong>gives financial assistance<\/strong> and other assistance <strong>to Animal Welfare Organisations<\/strong> functioning in any local area, to impart education in relation to the humane treatment of animals and so on.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Membership:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Board consists of <strong>28 Members.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The term of office of Members is for a period of 3 years.<\/li>\n<li>Several <strong>government organisations<\/strong>, along with <strong>animal rights activists<\/strong> and <strong>parliamentarians<\/strong>, are represented on the Board.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Animal Welfare Board of India FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Is Animal Welfare Board of India statutory body?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Animal Welfare Board of India is a statutory advisory body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Where is the Animal Welfare Board of India HQ?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Ballabhgarh in Haryana<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. The Animal Welfare Board of India is under which ministry?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is a statutory body of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsdrum.in\/business\/govt-plans-to-change-animal-welfare-boards-guidelines-to-prevent-cruelty-towards-animals-8762172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ND<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) is a statutory body set up in 1962 in accordance with Section 4 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6395","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\/6395","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=6395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}