Chandigarh, May 14, 2015: Haryana Minister of State for Cooperation, Bikram Singh Yadav today said that it has decided to increase the milk purchase rate from Rs 460 to Rs 480 per kg of fat and the subsidy of Rs four per litre of milk would be continued under Mukhya Mantri Dugdh Utpadak Protsahan Yojana thus, with subsidy, the milk producers would get a total rate of Rs 540 per kg of fat.
The Minister, who reviewed the working of Haryana Dairy Development Cooperative Federation and its affiliated Milk Unions with senior officers here, said that for the first time in the country, the milk of Desi cow would be collected, processed, packed and marketed separately by the Federation at Milk Plant, Kurukshetra, for which requisite infrastructure would be created.
He said that it has also been decided to launch new products like Meethi Dahi, Chhena Kheer, Rabri, Masala Paneer, Besan Laddoo and Burfi.
He said that with a view to check adulteration in milk, all the societies would be equipped with proper testing facilities at village level and committees would be constituted at level of unions to check adulteration. He said that out of 700 Milk Analysers purchased, 624 have been installed in the societies by Milk Unions.
The remaining 76 Milk Analysers would be installed by June 15.
He said that it has also been decided to select six societies in each of the six Milk Unions thus totalling 36 societies in which all the milk producers would get their payments through cheques from the month of June 2015. At present all the societies are getting their payments through banks.
He said that while the scheme of insurance of milk producer members has been started with effect from March 1, 2015, it should be further extended to benefit another 50,000 those milk producers who are not registered members of the societies.
The Minister said that it has also been decided to modernize and upgrade all Milk Chilling Centres and Milk Bars by adding re-creational facilities. The vehicles would be painted by the respective Milk Unions for advertisement of Vita milk and Vita products. He said that all the milk societies in the villages adopted by the Milk Unions would be upgraded with the latest facilities.
The Minister said that the issue of shortage of technical staff would be taken up at the level of Chief Minister at the earliest possible.
The Principal Secretary, Cooperation, Sudhir Rajpal and other senior officers of the Dairy Development Cooperative Federation were present in the meeting. / (SK Vyas, Jalandhar)