Tag: Maharashtra
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The unfinished Blog: Finally Completing the Story of Meeting Rajeev Deshmukh
In August 2022, Dr. Mukund Naware sent me a message informing me that Rajeev Deshmukh, who had worked with the Farmers Organization and Animal Husbandry (FO and AH) Division of the National Dairy Development Board would be visiting Toronto and would like to meet me. Dr Naware and I had a telephone call after that….
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Dr. Kurien receives Lokmanya Tilak Award
I was NDDB, State Director for Maharashtra during 2000-2003. In the year 2002, we received a message that Dr. Kurien would visit to Pune to receive “Lokmanya TilakAward” constituted by Lokmanya Tilak Trust, at Tilak Smarak Bhavan, Pune. The entire staff comprising ten NDDB Officers was asked to attend the ceremony. The Tilak SmarakBhavan in…
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NDDB Regional office Mumbai and Mahanand Dairy
During Operation Flood – I programme, Shri. Vasantdada Patil was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. The first meeting to discuss Operation Flood was held in 1971 at Mantralaya, Mumbai in a large meeting hall. There were around twenty five officers from different departments of Government of including the dairy development present at the meeting. The…