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Verghese Kurien’s answer to Lal Bahadur Shastri and the genesis for NDDB
This story (from Verghese Kurien’s I too had a dream) continues from Why Lal Bahadur Shastri wanted to spend a night in a Kaira district village. I assured the Prime Minister that all his observations were absolutely correct but that there was one difference, which he had failed to notice. The solitary difference was that Amul dairy …
Why Lal Bahadur Shastri wanted to spend a night in a Kaira district village
This story (from Verghese Kurien’s I too had a dream) continues from When an Indian Prime Minister spent a night in a village..unannounced..in 1964. He visited the huts of Harijans in the village. He sat with them and talked to them. He visited the Muslim families in the village. Till two o’clock in the morning, …
When an Indian Prime Minister spent a night in a village.. unannounced.. in 1964
There’s no better way to relate this story than to transcribe the relevant pages from Verghese Kurian’s I too had a dream. In 1964 the Kaira Union’s new cattle-feed compounding factory sponsored by Oxfam was ready at Kanjari, approximately eight kilometers from Anand. This was a revolutionary step for the dairy industry of the country. …
