What is NDDB?
A.. NDDB (National Dairy Development Board) was created in 1965 in response to the then Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s call to ‘transplant the spirit of Anand in many other places.’ He wanted the Anand model of dairy development — with institutions owned by rural producers, which are sensitive to their needs and responsive to their demands — replicated in other parts of the country. He said in a letter addressed to the State Chief Ministers, “We envisage a large programme of co-operative dairies during the Fourth Plan and this will, no doubt, be based on the Anand model. If we can transplant the spirit of Anand in many other places, it will also result in rapidly transforming the socio-economic conditions of the rural areas.” He decided that the Government of India would create a body, whose job would be to replicate ‘Anand.’ It would be headed by Dr Verghese Kurien, the then General Manager of the Kheda District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union Limited (AMUL). In the late si
