The milk man of India passes away
It is due to his effort that India today contributes about 17 per cent of the total milk production in the world. Amul, with a annual income of over Rs. 13,000 crore, is Asia’s top milk-producing brand and is counted, with as world’s leading brands in any sector.
Dr Verghese Kurien who is known as the “milk man of India”, the father of “White Revolution”, who pioneered the dairy co-operative movement passes away due to old age ailments. His genuine interest in the farmer’s welfare raised the country into the world’s largest milk producer in the world overtaking even the once milk-abundant Netherlands.
His body was brought to the “the milk capital of India” at Anand in Gujrat and kept at the Sardar hall
of the Amul dairy, where thousands, owed him for their economic freedom, paid
him their last respects.
A
native of Kozhikode, Kerala, on November 26, 1921, Dr. Kurien, completed his
mechanical engineer with dairy engineering as a minor subject, came to Anand in
1949. He was a well trained man who studied in India and abroad in the field of
milk production and processing. He made Anand his home town for nearly sixty
years.
It is due to his effort that India today contributes about 17 per cent of the total milk production in the world. Amul, with a annual income of over Rs. 13,000 crore, is Asia’s top milk-producing brand and is counted, with as world’s leading brands in any sector.
In
condolence message to his family the honourable prime minister of our country
Dr Manmohan Singh called Dr Kurien as an “innovative and outstanding manger and
an exceptional human being”. Chief
minister of Gujrat Narendra Modi said that “His life was a perfect example of
one life one mission”
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