HISTORY OF THE SPCA

In 1999, Mr. Madan Lal Verma, Editor, Good Haryana, Weekly, under the guidelines of Mrs. Maneka Gandhi, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt. of India, taking a pledge to save the animals from exploitation, established the People for Animals, Jind. Under the aegis of this organization a number of campaigns were started for prevention of cruelty to animals, under which in the year 1999-2000, the Society was able to prevent the transporting of 416 cows from Jind to Bihar and transporting of 647 buffaloes from Jind to Kolkata in 2001by the Indian Railways. As a recognition of his compassion for animals, in 2001, the Indian Animal Welfare Board, Govt of India, under the guidance of the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt of India, gave master training to Mr. Madan Verma, along with other selected animal lovers and in the year 2002, he was appointed a nominee of the CPSCEA Committee of the Government of India. As a nominee of this committee, Mr. Verma provided guidelines for preventing illegal animal experimentation. In addition to that under CPSCEA, he kept submitting his reports about the time to time inspection of the world’s number one Haryana Veterinary Vaccination Institute, Hisar. From 2000 to 2006, Mr. Madan Verma arranged about 100 free Animal Medical Camp and got thousands of sick animals treated. He also got hundreds of those stray animals treated which had been injured in road accidents and got them shelter in the various Gaushalas (Cow Shelters) of the State. After that, in order to prevent cruelty to animals, Mr. Madan Verma got more than 250 cases registered in the various police stations of the State under Preavention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960 and the different articles of Animal Transportation Rule, 1978. Thereafter, keeping the welfare of animals in view, he organized the S.P.C.A. Haryana and got it registered from the Haryana Government under the Societies Act, 1860.

If you witness cruelty to an animal, it is your responsibility to help stop it.