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वृक्षमंदिर में आपका स्वागत है। यादों, लेखों, कविताओं और कहानियों की एक छोटी-सी बगिया, एक नौसिखिए ब्लॉगर और उसके साथियों की।
By Dr Mukund Naware Sometime by the end of 1974 or early 75 a meeting was held at NDDB, Anand to undertake a overall review of various activities that were going on under Operation Flood -I in the presence of a team from WFP/ FAO. Officers from all the Regional Offices, Cell Offices had participated…
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 RK Nagar It was the beginning of Operation Flood-I early seventies. FAO-WFP, who were the donors of dairy commodities insisted on sending some experts in dairy technology, dairy engineering, animal breeding, animal nutrition etc. as they believed that we poor Indians didn’t have the expertise to handle a large and complex project like OF….
Much before his visit, NDDB, Anand was making preparation for his visit. I was at that time working at NDDB, Anand in the Co-operative Services Group. One day, Dr. N.V. Belawadi called me and told that, C.S. group had to organize visit of Prime Minister Shri. Atal Bihari Vajpayee at a nearby village. After long…
By RK Nagar No one would believe it, but he was quite a prankster in his early days. He later became very serious. So most of us carry only the serious image of his. Yes, I am talking of eternity serious Mr. PG Gore. Year 1971. Behla was our site engineer in Pondicherry. One day…
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…
साझी कहानियाँ श्रद्धेय महाशय, प्रातः वंदन ! श्री मान, मेरी तीन कहानियाँ आपके पास लम्बित है l इनका विवरण निम्नवत है : – 1) बरौनी डेयरी मे हुए strike से सम्बंधित, इसका शीर्षक नही दिया गया है 2) NDDB Coordinator से संबंधित कहानी जो फाइनल स्टेज मे है l 3) ” स्टोरी ऑफ एन…
I met Ganeshji not in the century that I was born but had to wait for the onset of the new millennium plus almost eight years for the planets to synchronise and be at the right position to create a favourable grah dasha. When the three of us Ganesh ji, Virindra Behla ( Viru) and…
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,…
