The Haryana Cattle Fairs (Amendment) Bill 2013 has been passed to put a ban on the sale and purchase of elephants in the cattle fairs.
Despite a ban on elephant trading, jumbos can be bought and sold in Haryana, thanks to loopholes in the state's Village Cattle Fair Act (1970).
The act, amended twice, continues to have elephants on its list of tradable animals at rural cattle fairs. The state act violates the Wildlife Protection Act (1972) that puts elephants in the protected category scheduled one and bars their domestication. The definition of tradable cattle in Haryana includes buffaloes, camels, cows, donkeys, elephants, horses and mules.
Elephant became national heritage animal of India, the international representative of OIPA in India Naresh Kadyan approach the Ministry of Environment and Forest to introduce legislation and then moved public interest litigation before the Delhi High Court to include elephant in the Emblem and Names (Prevention of improper use) Act 1950; likewise Abhishek Kadyan, Hon. Animal Welfare Officer, AWBI taken up this matter with the Ministry of Home Affairs, where as Miss Sukanya Kadyan moved this matter before the Election Commission of India to freeze the symbol of Bahujan Samaj Party.
Miss Sukanya Kadyan taken up the matter of amendment in the Haryana Cattle Fairs Act definition because it allows the trade of jumbo in Haryana, which is illegal, after a long battle of three years, at last Haryana Legislative Assembly agreed to amend the said legislation, elephant word deleted approving Haryana Cattle Fair Bill on September 10, 2013.
OIPA representative in India, Naresh Kadyan, moved public interest litigation before the Rajasthan High Court and got ban order, likewise elephant ivory products manufacturing and trading was allowed under the Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme of Khadi and Village Industries Commission. This matter was also taken up with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (Ministry of Environment and Forest) by the Abhishek Kadyan and Miss Sukanya Kadyan jointly, notice was issued to KVIC by WCCB and at last KVIC was compelled to amend its negative list, now all ban articles are covered under the negative list of KVIC.
OIPA appreciated the performances of OIPA chapter in India under the able leadership of the representative Naresh Kadyan.

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