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MOTHER DAIRY
CALCUTTA -a Government of West Bengal project, was
started under Operation Flood II of National Dairy
Development Board . It was set up initially to cater to the demand of
the Kolkata urban agglomeration spread over the
Kolkata Metropolitan area, approximately 852 sq kms.
Mother Dairy is also reaching out to the consumers of
other Districts. The commissioning of the Dairy
started in July 1978 and the first Distribution
vehicle loaded with milk sachets rolled out of the Dairy in
the morning of 8th December 1978. Initially, the
management of Mother Dairy was looked after by the
National Dairy
Development Board . On
24th March 1982 , the then Honourable Chief Minister Shri
Jyoti
Basu dedicated Mother Dairy Calcutta
to the rural milk
producers and urban milk consumers of West Bengal. From
then onwards, the story of Mother Dairy is one of
success after success. The growth of the Dairy continued unabated .
Mother Dairy safeguards the interest of the rural milk
producers by encouraging co-operative movement & marketing
the surplus milk available from the villages, thus helping
the milk producers to realize their own potential for
organized endevour & the creation of more rural wealth in
the shape of 'Anand Pattern' as profounder by Dr. V.Kurian,
The MilkMan of INDIA. In
November 1996 , the management of Mother Dairy was taken
over by West Bengal Cooperative Milk Producers’
Federation Ltd.
It is selling Milk
& Milk Products like Mishti Doi , Flavoured Yoghurt,
Plain
yoghurt, Paneer, Cow Ghee and Packaged Drinking
Water. Now it has started diversifying its activity by selling the
produce of other Cooperative, Unions of West Bengal
and other States as Mother Dairy has a strong marketing
network.
Under Operation Flood III in the
year 1997, the processing capacity of the plant was
increased from 400,000 litres per day to 600,000 litres
per day.
In the year 2000, Mother Dairy Calcutta
received
ISO 9002 certification
and in the year 2001
Mother Dairy received
HACCP Certification.
Our
certification agency is internationally
renowned D.N.V
[DET NORSKE VERITAS, NETHERLANDS].
Mother Dairy has also receive
Environment Excellence award [2000 - 2001].
In the year October'2003 Mother Dairy Calcutta
received ISO 9001:2000 and the certification agency is
SGS India Pvt. Ltd., a renowned London based
Organization.ISO also revised to ISO 9001:2008.
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