Vrikshamandir
By Dr. Mukund Naware Prior to joining NDDB I worked as Veterinary Officer in Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF) during 1970 / 71. Shri Manibhai Desai who was Executive Trustee had established this Foundation to undertake cross breeding of Desi cows using frozen semen from Jersey and Holstein breeds. Shri Manibhai Desai was well known […]
And Gurumantra from Shri P Aranha another boxer 🥊 I had totally forgotten the story that Nagar has shared about Dr Kurien and cricket. Nagar and I were in UK together for about three months during August to October 1972 to get trained in computer systems analysis and design. After I received the draft of […]
By RK Nagar Since we did not have any indoor sports facilities, the only option was to take part in the only outdoor sport-tennis ball cricket that we played first on the parking lot near the old office building and later shifted to where the present tennis court is. With this change of venue came […]
By Dr Mukund Naware In 1972 I joined NDDB and during 1974 I was posted at Jalgaon to lead the Spear Head Team. Our job was to organize Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCS) at village level and enrol them as members of the newly formed Jalgaon District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union (JMU). Initially these DCSs supplied […]
By IVNS Raju I was then working with the East Coast Road Project of AFCONS Infrastructure Ltd., based out of Marakkanam a village near Pondicherry. I had applied for a job at NDDB and got an invite to appear for written test at NDDB,Ceebros Complex, Chennai in the month of January, 1992. I wrote the […]
Corona has changed the world as we knew earlier. The way we lived in our homes, studied in schools and colleges, worked in our offices and factories, went for shopping in markets, even the way we greeted and communicated with each other have all changed. And no one knows how long this uncertain confused state […]
By Dr. Mukund Naware Launch of Operation Flood -II Sometime in 1980 a meeting/workshop was convened at NDDB Anand to discuss the modalities for implementation of Operation Flood (OF) phase II. The Phase II was to cover 155 districts and the State Dairy Federations were to be the Implementing Agencies. The phase I of OF […]
My mother started cooking at a very young age before her marriage. After her marriage she cooked for the family for years at my village where we lived in a large joint farming family. After that she stayed with my father where ever my father was posted Nanpara, Bahraich, Deoria, Delhi, Nilokhari, Dehradun, Delhi, Gurgaon… […]
Once upon a time not so long ago … Those were the days when we had only heard of frozen semen. Embryo transfer was not even heard of. It may have existed in textbooks and research papers but not in practice. Insemination in cows and buffaloes with liquid semen was the order of the day. […]
डाक्टर भीमशंकर मनुबंश बात उन दिनों की है जब मैं बरौनी दुग्ध संघ का प्रबंध निदेशक हुआ करता था । एक रात, कोई बारह बजे के बाद की बात है, अचानक फोन की घंटी बज उठी। उस जमाने मे सिर्फ लैंड – लाइन ही हुआ करता था ।हम लोग कुछ ही समय पहले सोये थे […]
He was the only child of late Mrs Krishna and late Shri R N Haldipur, a former Lt. Governor of Arunachal and Pondicherry states. Mr Haldipur accepted Dr. Kurien’s offer and took over as Director, IRMA in 1982. During his four years stay in Anand, I had only a formal contact with him. His wife, […]
Contributed by former NDDB employees and well wishers Collection of photos that speak to those who lived through those momentous moments that stretched to years … Action picture at work, home and having fun, of self, family, colleagues, offices ,plants, field operations… will all find a place here. Please send your photos (preferably taken in […]