By Dr Mukund Naware The News That Was Hard to Accept Narendra Vashi ( January 8, 1948 – 29 July, 2026) Narendra Vashi passed away on 29 July 2026. The news was difficult to believe. Once confirmed, like many others, I felt a deep sorrow. Although Vashi is no longer with us, I hope the…
Talent vs. Pay. Deserving vs. Non-Deserving. Achieving vs. Failing. We love to debate these things as if success is a neat formula of hard work plus skill. But a couple of real incidents from my early career still make me laugh — because they showed me that even the greatest leaders know the truth: most…
In the golden era of India’s White Revolution, a quiet but remarkable man stood tall at the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). His name was PG Gore. He joined NDDB in 1966 as an Apprentice Engineer at a stipend of Rs 300 per month , fresh out of IIT Mumbai, at a time when the…
Lalatendu Kar is Senior Vice President and Head of Workforce Management and Learning & Development at Reliance Retail. He previously served as HR Head for Mumbai Airport and various Reliance Retail businesses, after his tenure at NDDB.
The blog chronicles Dr. Verghese Kurien’s efforts to expand Operation Flood in Maharashtra amid bureaucratic opposition.
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…
