Welcome to Vrikshamandir. A small garden of memories, essays, poems and stories, tended by a novice blogger and shared by friends.
वृक्षमंदिर में आपका स्वागत है। यादों, लेखों, कविताओं और कहानियों की एक छोटी-सी बगिया, एक नौसिखिए ब्लॉगर और उसके साथियों की।
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…
Dr. Madhavan shares his reminiscences in a series of articles. He has named these memoirs as “Feast of Memories”. Spearhead Team was an innovative intervention for replication of a successful organisational system of cooperative dairying in Anand to other parts of India. Dr Madhavan talks about pricing system of milk and interaction between the Spearhead…
आज के घर की क्या होगी कल पहचान ? गाँव से बाहर ऊसर धरती पर जो थी बंजर लगाया, संजोया गाँव से बाहर पिता ने वृक्ष मंदिर ! होते थे वहाँ तब तीन महुआ और एक जामुन के पेड़ एक कुआँ भी था, पानी भी हाँ साफ़ पानी था तीन चार फ़ुट ज़मीन के नीचे पीते थे पानी, जहाँ प्यासे चरवाहे और खेल खेलते घुमंतू बच्चे हम तो बस खडिया बीनने जाते थे दीये की कालिख से पुती अम्माँ की चूड़ी से चमकाई काली पट्टी पर नरकंडे की क़लम से लिखने क ख ग घ । पिता के पहले शायद उनके पिता के समय के वह पेड मूक अपने स्थान से देखते रहे होंगे सब कुछ नि:स्पृह, नितांत, एकांत कैसा लगता होगा उन्हे यह बदलाव ? गाँव से बाहर ऊसर बंजर धरती पर बना वृक्ष मंदिर, आया था यहाँ मिटाने थकान, वहां जहाँ कोई न हो बस पक्षियो के झुंडो का कलरव, कोयल की कूक, पेड़ों की डालियों से बोलती सरसराती बयार, उमड़ते घुमडते बादल, गरज कर बचपन की याद दिलाते हैं,हँसाते हैं, डराते हैं । चमकती हैं बिजलियाँ , कौंध जाती हैं यादें बचपन की उस तृप्ति का अहसास जो बचपन बाद जब कभी भी लौटी तो कभी सावन के छींटे सी कभी मूसलाधार । अजनबी और अनजान धुँधली यादों की शांति मे दीखने लगते हैं चलचित्र से चेहरे बहुत से कुछ पुराने, कुछ जाने पहचाने अब तो कुछ नये भी लगते हैं अपने से अपनो से ही तो होती है अपनी पहचान ।…
रश्मि कांत नागर
