The blog chronicles Dr. Verghese Kurien’s efforts to expand Operation Flood in Maharashtra amid bureaucratic opposition.
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The First Chapter in Dr. Mukund Naware’s Three-Part Blog Series To set the stage, let’s kick things off with that letter to Dr. Naware. Dear Dr. Naware, Greetings!I hope this email finds you in good health.I would like to know your thoughts on the English translation of your evocative memoir article “Stories from Yesteryears and […]
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 […]
श्री प्रवीण पटेल का यह गुजराती लेख मुझे उनके फ़ेसबुक पेज पर पढ़ने को मिला। प्रवीण भाई एशिया भूमंडल की सबसे बड़ी और अमूल पद्धति पर चल रही बनासकांठा सहकारी दूध उत्पादक संघ में असिस्टेंट जनरल मैनेजर ( प्राजेक्टस) के पद पर कार्यरत हैं। बनासकांठा सहकारी दूध उत्पादक संघ “अमूल” परिवार का भाग है । […]
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. […]
On January 21 and 22, 2023, nearly 200 former employees of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and their spouses met in the Tribhuvan Das Auditorium at NDDB, Anand, to celebrate their association with the organisation and the years and years of work life they spent together at the NDDB in Anand. I had earlier […]
Dr TP Benjamin MVSc, Fellow IIMA , Bengaluru, a former colleague at NDDB and IRMA and a dear friend sent a whatsapp forward about a speech that Dr Kurien delivered as Chief Guest at IIM Ahmedabad at 23 Convocation of the institute in 1988. Text of the WhatsApp forward is given at the end of […]
Thank you Dr Joshi for your kinds words about Vrikshamandir. I had written a blog in 2020 titled “Why Vrikshamandir”? I quote below the last paragraph of that blog. One can read the full text by clicking this link “Why Vrikshamandir” “I decided to launch this website and post blogs documenting life experiences, incidents, and […]
I visited my home country, Bharat, from 14 November 2022 to 6 March 2023, after nearly two years and four months. There was so much to do during the four-month trip to Bharat; So many people to meet—so many places to visit. I was excited but tired too. After all, I had just gotten over […]
M M Patel During the initial years of the Operation Flood Project, NDDB organized important activities such as Farmer’s Induction Programs for farmers and Training cum Orientation Programs for newly recruited personnel of various milk unions. I had the opportunity to work on both. From 1977 to 1978, I was posted at the NDDB head […]
I got an opportunity to work as a member of the NDDB spearhead team at Jalgaon (Maharashtra) from 1974 to 1976. This was the period when Operation Flood – I was under implementation. This posting enabled me get a very good exposure into the workings of spearhead teams through which NDDB helped organise village level […]
Dr Kurien was a fearless karmyogi and he never asked for anything for himself. I recall when Jagjivan Ram wanted a private dairy to be funded under Operation Flood (OF), Dr Kurien’s blunt reply was that it could not be done. Surely the Minister had wanted him to be sacked but could not because of […]