Vrikshamandir
The former employees of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) organised their first reunion in 2015, the second in 2020, and the third in 2023. I attended all three. They are meeting again—the fourth reunion is scheduled for 7–8 February 2025. When I mentioned it to an old friend the other day, neither of us […]
The Second Chapter in Dr. Mukund Naware’s Three-Part Blog Series A Story from Yesterday This is a story that happened in October-November 1996. For a specific purpose, I had arrived at a bank branch in Rajgurunagar, Pune district. Dr. Sane, my colleague, was with me. We had come without prior notice, and since it was […]
For Hindi translation of this blog click here ——————————————————————————————————————— This story takes us back to the early 1980s, a time when the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) had not yet revolutionized India’s edible oil market with its “Dhara” brand, nor had the Indian government approved NDDB’s Market Intervention Operation (MIO). During this period, the Indian […]
R K Nagar Former General Manager National Dairy Development Board Completion of OF-I took nearly ten years against planned 7 (including 2 pre-project years). There were too many unknowns that needed to be dealt with. Midway through the project, for example an action item- ‘Resettlement of city kept cattle’ had to be dropped and funds […]
R K Nagar, Former General Manager National Dairy Development Board India has continued to be the world’s largest milk producer since 1996. It is no mean achievement considering how disorganised Indian dairying was in the 1960s. A turnaround of this magnitude, in an extremely challenging environment can be attributed solely to an exemplary farsighted leadership […]
In my tribute to Dr. Michael Halse, that I posted under the title “ Michael Halse:My Guru”, I have mentioned about an exercise that we, the original team of the Management and Manpower Development (MMD) division did to churn out two basic documents on Operation Flood titled White Book Section-I and White […]
बात है सन 1980 के दशक के पूर्वार्ध, तब की जब न तो , नेशनल डेयरी डेवलपमेंट बोर्ड (एनडीडीबी) की “धारा” ब्रांड से भारत के खाद्य तेल बाजार में क्रांति आई थी, न भारत सरकार द्वारा अनुमोदित एनडीडीबी का एमआईओ (Market intervention Operation) शुरू हुआ था और इंडियन डेयरी कार्पोरेशन(IDC) और एनडीडीबी (नेशनल डेयरी डेवलपमेंट […]
Historian R.G Collingwood once stated, “The ultimate aim of history is human self-knowledge. The value of history is that it teaches us what man has done, thus what man is.” Understanding our past is essential to grasping our present. The history of dairying in India stretches back millennia, but its modern evolution is closely tied […]
Once upon a time, in the vibrant city of Toronto, a heartfelt gathering took place on the night of September 13, 2024. Friends and colleagues, united by a shared history, came together to reminisce and celebrate the bonds they had forged over the decades. In one picture, taken with the latest iPhone 15 gifted by […]
So much has been written about Dr. Verghese Kurien—his remarkable contributions and the profound impact he had on the dairy industry in India—that any new reflections on his life and work might seem like mere repetitions of existing material. Yet, the question remains: how do we truly remember Dr. Kurien? Recently, Shri Mariappan, a former […]
है तुम्हें किस बात का डर, रखो विश्वास इंजीनियरिंग पर, देंगे मीठी ख़ुशबू दूध और पनीर, पूरा होगा विज्ञान, डेयरियां बन जायेंगीं परफ़्यूमरियां माइक डॉ. माइकल हाल्स, एक विदेशी होने के बावजूद, 1965 सितंबर में प्रधानमंत्री श्री लाल बहादुर शास्त्री की प्रेरणा से स्थापित नेशनल डेयरी डेवलपमेंट बोर्ड के संस्थापक सदस्य थे। थे तो अंग्रेज, […]
In August 2022, Dr. Mukund Naware sent me a message informing me that Rajeev Deshmukh, who had worked with the Farmers Organization and Animal Husbandry (FO and AH) Division of the National Dairy Development Board would be visiting Toronto and would like to meet me. Dr Naware and I had a telephone call after that. […]