I am referring to the emotional side, yes emotional side of the man whom, at least I had never seen that way anytime before. This happened in Madras-now Chennai sometime in 1986-87. He was in Madras and I had coincided my visit to Madras office as he wanted me to accompany him to the residence…
Take over Nilgiri Dairy As the days passed, the Spearhead Team organised several cooperatives, covering most of the potential villages from where Nilgiri Dairy Farm (NDF) and other private agencies procured milk. We intensified our extension activities and educated the farmers: how the private sector operated and exploited the producers. The private sector made huge…
We had sent the bye laws to the Registrar of Cooperatives, Government of Karnataka for approval. As expected, there were a number of objections raised by the office of the Registrar and they suggested that a meeting be held between Regional Director NDDB and the Registrar. I therefore called on the Registrar in his office…
Most NDDB the bosses were considered to be tough. However, there was another side too in behaviour of seniors officers of NDDB. Here is a story depicting concern for the family of NDDB officers by NDDB Chairman, Dr. Miss Amrita Patel. NDDB was assigned responsibility of reviving defunct milk unions of Saurashtra and Kutch during…
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…
The Jalgaon Milk Union, Jalgaon was covered under Operation Flood Programme in the year 1974. The Union was among first ‘18 Anand’s identified under Operation Flood -I programme. The Jalgaon Milk Union was chosen purely based on buffalo milk production in that area. Since ages, “Khandeshi Ghee” was famous in that part of northern Maharashtra….
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?…
Don’t Open Account with Cooperative Bank! But why ? When the first set of Anand Pattern cooperatives were ready, we had to open its accounts with a bank. The team was particular that the accounts were opened with the district cooperative bank. However, to our surprise, the Deputy Milk Commissioner Cooperation advised us to open…
Operation Flood II project was an expansion on the work done during Operation Flood I and include more milksheds under the project. Operation Flood I established 18 Anands from among 52 milksheds . Operation Flood II had to look at 136 districts to identify potential Anands of which 25 milksheds were from Maharashtra. It was…
Looking back to my days at NDDB (1969-1996), I feel I was lucky to have worked for Dr. V. Kurien, the legend, at some point of time. Those days Dr.Kurien used to hold two positions; General Manager, Kheda District Milk Producers Union Limited ( AMUL) ` and Chairman,NDDB. Morning hours he would spend time at…
