Port Blair, Nov 21: AMUL, Port Blair has celebrated Dr. Verghese Kurien’s birth centenary and Amul’s successfully completion of 75 years of serving Indian milk producers and consumers by organizing cycle rally from Cellular Jail via Corbyn’s Cove Beach ending at Flag Point today.
Dr. Verghese Kurien transferred India from a milk deficient Country to a milk surplus one. He has made India the largest milk producing Country in the world and Amul the largest Indian food brand.
Based on the advice of Sardar Vallabhai Patel to our milk farmers to control the resources they produce, by forming cooperatives, Dr. Kurien created the Anand Pattern of cooperatives.
Lal Bahadur Shastri, our former Prime minister, advised Dr. Kurien to replicate the Amul model across the Country and thus NDDB was born.
Operation Flood was the program implemented by Dr.Kurien by creating many State cooperatives like Aavin, Milma, Nandini, Verka etc. and led to India becoming the largest milk producer in the world.
We now have more than 10 crore farmers covered by Dairy cooperative system.
Dr. Kurien was an institution builder, having founded Institute of Rural Management, National Co-op Dairy Federation of India, NTGCF ( Nation Tree Growers cooperative to Federation,), Indian Dairy Machinery Company etc. He has received numerous National and international awards.
The event was flagged off by Additional District Magistrate, Sh. Hari Kallikat, IAS and Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Sh. Dilkhush Meena, IAS. The rally was attended by around 80 members of all age groups with cycling enthusiasts, Naval Officers & Families, WDs & Families and others local citizens.
