Modi's India is really weird.
Technicians fan out with tablets
Nearly one lakh technicians have started to fan out across the country since New Year's Day , armed with 50,000 tablets and a single mission -to affix a tag with a 12-digit unique identification number inside an ear of each of a staggering 88 million cows and buffaloes within this year.
The purpose, as per Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision, is to tag and track cattle so that they are vaccinated on time and scientific intervention is made available for better breeding and increasing milk production, doubling income of dairy farmers in the process by 2022.
The technicians have been trained to affix a polyurethane tag inside the ears of the cattle with a tag applicator.The tag is tamper-proof, cannot be opened by a wrench and is designed to last for years, officials said…