Vrikshamandir
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 […]
On the night of August 24, 2024, in Toronto, I was winding down, ready to slip into the comforting embrace of sleep, when a WhatsApp message from Nakshatri, my former colleague at the National Dairy Development Board, jolted me awake. Nakshatri had been part of the Oilseeds and Vegetable Oil wing, a team I had […]
We were in Vancouver from July 7th to 16th, 2023. The occasion was a sort of reunion of three families: the Anejas, Behlas, and mine. The three of us first met at Anand in the late sixties where we worked for many years with the then nascent National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) of India. Virindra […]
Reproducing an article by Shri BM Vyas for the souvenir publised on the occassion of Golden Jubilee of Amul Thank you for your invitation to share my memories of Amul, on the auspicious occasion of the 75th anniversary of this esteemed organisation. Incidentally, I had joined Amul in June 1971, and that was the time […]
Dedicated to “Father of white revolution”, Milk man of India Dr. V.Kurien
As remembered bv G. Rajan, former PS to Secetary,NDDB “Rajan, could you please come over to my house quickly” Dr. RP Aneja (Secretary, NDDB ) was on the intercom. It was on an early Sunday morning. It had rained the previous night. Dr.Aneja seemed concerned about something. I anticipated that there was something serious. From […]