List compiled by By Shri G.Rajan NDDB Logo Designed by Mr. A Barooha, Creative director of CONCEPT Markeing & Advertising. Bombay, in July 1971 the Mohan -ja-daro bull was originally meant as a logo for the Indian Dairy Corporation(IDC). But the design “Drop” was selected for IDC, and NDDB took over the Mohan-ja-daro…
– Dr. Mukund Naware It is to be noted that on that day in October 1969 in entire India at only one place under the auspices of Indo Swiss Project at Mattupatty Artificial Insemination Programme with Frozen Semen in the Project Area had been started in project area by 1965 , and in the…
– Dr. HB Joshi Sabarmati Ashram Gaushalap was handed over for management to National Dairy Development Board on 1 July 1973.It is a place full of history as it was associated with Mahatma Gandhi and managed by a charitable trust set up during Gandhi ji’s early years in Gujarat. It had a vast area of…
Dr. HB Joshi Early morning telephone call In the foggy weather of Delhi that day , sun was yet to come out and the severe cold was preventing me from coming out of my cosy bed. Suddenly the telephone bell rang. Very unusual and surprising to get a call at that hour to so early…
From the pen of a “pun-ster friend” of Dr. Surendra Ranade The Amul group’s turnover crossing ₹50,000 Cr, is a clear case of the ‘Lactic’ going ga’Lactic’ and creating its own ‘Milk’y Way! Reposting this blog contributed by Dr Surendra Ranade for Vrikshamandir on 10 August 2020. Six years later in 2026 turnover…
RK Nagar We moved to the NDDB campus in 1970. NDDB. Total manpower strength of NDDB at that time was perhaps around 30 -35 or so, including the support staff . We all had our work places in the Chairman’s office building. Only eight B type and two A type houses for officers who had…
Dr. HB Joshi I was posted at Galbabhai Dairy Co-operative Training Centre, (managed by NDDB), Palanpur, in 1989. Situated within the Banas Dairy premises this training centre is a beautiful monument of architectural glory with stone masonry at the entrance! The five acre campus had fragrant rose beds and Mexican lawn in the centre of…
Dr. HB Joshi During 1985 I was transferred to heavenly NDDB from SAGP, Bidaj and placed with Manpower Development Division headed by Dr SP Mittal. I was assigned with the responsibility of organising cooperative development training programmes on Anand Pattern. The participants included dairy supervisors from states across the country. Being a local person with…
– Dr. HB Joshi I was transferred from SAG Bidaj a “Mecca” for veterinarian to heavenly NDDB , Campus in Anand in 1985 thus life and work both got an U turn! Lifted from a remote place surrounded with only green lustrous fields and cattle habitats to a paradise interspersed with green carpeting with…
Dr. HB Joshi “Where have you brought us Papa? This place looks like a prison! Feels like committing suicide at a place like this! ” said my elder son, Rajen, irritatingly. We had just arrived at the Galbabhai Dairy Co-operative Training Centre (GDCTC), Palanpur in 1989. It was a place engulfed in utter solitude…
Dr HB Joshi I would love to share and depict one example of the supportive leadership that I experienced during my working tenure at National Dairy Development Board , Anand during 1985 to 88 as an Executive (Manpower Development ). My work assignment was usually coordinating and conducting various training programs. There was this national…
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…
