Organisation of agriculture and animal husbandry

organise agriculture and animal husbandry on modern and scientific lines and shall, in particular, take steps for preserving and improving the breeds, and prohibiting the slaughter, of cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle. 1. Inserted by Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, s.9 (w.e.f. 3.1.1977) 2. Inserted by the Constitution (Ninety-seventh Amendment) Act, 2011, s.3 (w.e.f. 15.2.2012). 3. Substituted by the Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002, s.3 for article 45 (w.e.f. 1.4.2010). 24 THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA (Part IV. — Directive Principles of State Policy) 1 [48A. Protection and improvement of environment and safeguarding of forests and wild life:- The State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wild life of the country.]