Department of Livestock Services

The department is focused on transitioning the livestock sector into a modern, export-oriented industry while managing disease control and enforcing new regulatory compliance for poultry farms.

DLS is a national-level department under the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (parent_id_ref). Its institutional lineage begins with the British Civil Veterinary Department (1883), reorganised as Directorate of Animal Husbandry, East Pakistan after 1947 Partition, renamed Directorate of Livestock Services in 1960, and reconstituted as DLS after independence; established_year is set to 1971 (independence-era reconstitution). Md. Shahzaman Khan confirmed as Director General by three independent May 2026 sources (BSS, Dhaka Tribune, New Age) covering the May 13 LST validation workshop. A January 2026 BSS report cited Dr Md Abu Sufian as DG (Dairy Development Board meeting); the May 2026 sources are more recent and consistent across multiple outlets -- the DG position appears to have changed between January and May 2026. head_since is null: no official gazette date for Shahzaman Khan's appointment found in primary sources. staff_count is null: no publicly available sanctioned-post figure found; DLS maintains upazila-level offices nationwide. annual_budget_bdt is null: budget documents on dls.gov.bd list line items in Bengali PDFs without a publicly accessible consolidated total; this must be extracted directly from the FY2025-26 budget PDF before populating. Eid livestock figures (12.4 million total) cross-checked against three sources (Bonikbarta, BSS, Bangla Mirror News); sub-components (5,695,878 cattle+buffalo; 6,632,307 goats+sheep; 5,655 other) from Bonikbarta citing DLS data. Animal vaccination card initiative date (April 9, 2026) confirmed by Bangladesh Pratidin and The Daily Star independently. LST workshop date (May 13, 2026) confirmed by BSS, Dhaka Tribune, TOB News, and New Age. Verification based on 2+ independent primary sources for all factual claims.