Vrikshamandir
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, […]
This funny incident also happened in 1982 in Pakistan. The scene- Hilton, Lahore. This was our second week in Pakistan. After first week in Islamabad, which was mostly meetings with policy makers and senior bureaucrats in the government of Pakistan, we were now to undertake field visits to the proposed project areas in the Punjab province. Dr. Kurien left for India […]
Year 1982. I was in Karachi with Mike (Dr. Michael Halse, my guru). We were members the Pakistan Dairy Sector Review Mission fielded by the World Bank and led by Dr. V. Kurien. The evening we reached Karachi, Mike told me that he had a call from the principal of his high school in London […]
Michael Halse: My Guru by RK Nagar RK Nagar pays tributes to his Guru …Dr Michael Halse…It is a long piece but worth a read particularly for those who wish to know more about the unsung heroes who under Dr Kurien’s leadership made the “White Revolution “ a reality in India. Mike was a born […]
Michael Halse became a member of the founding board of National Dairy Development Board from 1965 1968. He was FAO advisor NDDB from 1968 till 1983. When Operation Flood I was launched in 1970 he was appointed as the Team Leader of FAO experts assigned to NDDB. He helped conceptualise and set up the Management […]