Vadodara: Union home minister and minister of cooperation Amit Shah will be in Milk City Anand on Tuesday, marking his birthday.
In Anand, Shah will attend the diamond jubilee celebration of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and participate in the birth anniversary celebration of Tribhuvandas Patel, the founder of Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited, popularly known as Amul Dairy.
The diamond jubilee celebration of NDDB and the birth anniversary celebration of Tribhuvandas Patel, fondly remembered as Tribhuvankaka, will be held at T K Patel Auditorium on NDDB campus. Shah will be accompanied by Union minister of fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying, Rajiv Ranjan Singh, and Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel.
In 1965, NDDB was set up by an Act of Parliament mainly to replicate the success of the Amul pattern in other parts of the country.
Under the leadership of Dr Verghese Kurien, the apex dairy body initiated the ‘billion-litre idea’ (Operation Flood) in July 1970, which, in a span of 26 years, turned India into the world’s largest milk producer, surpassing the United States in 1998.
