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…
By RK Nagar As we all know, Operation Flood-I was funded entirely out of monetisation of Skim Milk Powder and Butter Oil gifted by the European Union,( then known as EEC) through the FAO-WFP. As per the terms of the agreement, Indian Dairy Corporation (IDC), a fully owned company of the government of India established…
By RK Nagar Whereas NDDB had hard time pursuing states to accept even one project to create an ‘Anand’, under Operation Flood -I the story was different when it came to Operation Flood -II. Politicians now wanted their constituency included under OF-II. Two notable requests were from Kamalnath, the member of parliament from Chhindwara, MP…
By Dr Mukund Naware By 1977 the Amul model had become a three tier structure with Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCS) at village level, Milk Unions at District level and a Federation of Unions at the State level. The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation had come into being this way. NDDB adopted this model under Operation…
A demonetisation did take place, much before most of us heard of ‘Demonatisation’ few years ago when currency notes in the denominations of Rs 1000 and 500 suddenly became scrap. People have differing views on that demonetisation. There have been lengthy debates whether it was needed and/or was successful. I do not intend to ignite…
During my tenure in NDDB I learnt a lot of lessons in austerity. If I say that the first phase of Operation Flood (OF) had an outlay of around 100 crores Crores many in the present generation would not believe. But in that outlay there were Action Items targeted at Expansion of existing Metro…
It is a fact that a NDDB State Coordinator regardless of the state he was posted in, would soon find himself interacting with a large number of people in his official dealings. That was the nature of the job that a State Programme Coordinator had. It is also true that over a period of time,…
Kolhapur District Co-operative Milk Union (Gokul) started its new dairy at MIDC, Gokul Shirgaon, Kolhapur in the year 1985. NDDB had taken this project on turn-key basis and erected dairy of 2 lakh lit. per day capacity for handling milk and 10 MT per day capacity of powder plant. As soon as new dairy was…
In February, 1972 I joined NDDB as an Apprentice Officer. It was the first batch of 16 officers recruited with an aim to establish Farmers’ Organizations in 18 selected Milksheds across 10 States of India. We underwent rigorous training of one year at Amul Dairy so as to understand Anand Pattern at the grass root…
Dairy industry in India has come a long way. The path it has travelled, I am talking of Cooperative sector in particular, has been full of turbulence. Making India self-sufficient in milk could become possible, as we all know, because of one man and he is Late Dr. Verghese Kurien. He The has rightly been…
Photo courtesy Google, Sathish MN It all began with my transfer to Bangalore as the Regional Director in May 1986. I went to call on Dr. Kurien before shifting my family to Bengaluru. Dr Kurien asked, he asked “ Where is land for my campus? How long are you going to take to acquire it?…
International Standards for global trade for all foods including milk products come under the purview of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) of the WHO, who in turn appointed International Dairy Federation (IDF) as it Advisor for draft standards on milk and milk products. In 1995, Dr. Kurien appointed me as the Secretary of the Indian…
