The Department of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Service was a joint Department Comprising of Agriculture & Animal Husbandry. As the needs of Animal Husbandry and Dairying increased this Department assumed its singular characteristics and function.  The Department is headed by the DIRECTOR (Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science). This Department which is primarily vested with the responsibility of providing veterinary health along with increase in livestock production has now the task of attaining self sufficiency in milk production of this state.

A phase 3 clinical trial has found that finerenone, a nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, produces a significantly greater reduction in a key marker of kidney damage compared to placebo in adults with Type 1 diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD). The results were published on March 5, 2026 in the New England Journal of Medicine.