Animal Husbandry Minister Antar Singh Arya undertook surprise inspection of Bhopal Dairy Federation's plant here on Friday. lauding sanitation, hygiene product quality of the plant, he said that it should be brought from second to top position in the country. Arya undertook minute inspection of all process right from milk collection up to distribution of milk. Federation's CEO KK Saxena and GM Reddy apprised the Minister of every process.
Arya expressed happiness that after remaining on sixth position in the country, the federation reached the second position during last 2-3 years. Arya said that we should be content with this since the plant has to reach top in the country by maintaining quality. Arya inspected automatic chilling, bottling, packaging plant and testing lab. He also inspected country's most state-of-the-art cell to monitor entire process in the plant. In the cell, milk and processes to produce milk products are monitored constantly.
CEO Saxena informed that the federation has increased rates of milk collectors, but has not transferred the additional burden to consumers. Due to this, the federation is running on no profit no loss basis. Federation collects milk daily from 2500 villages and making payments to them every 10th day. Federation is pioneer in the country in respect of payments.
Arya witnesses process of producing Peda, Chhena, Mawa, Ghee, Maththha, and lassi etc. and lauded their quality. Arya was informed that due to quality these products are much in demand in the market. There is constant gap between demand and supply and efforts are being made to bridge the gap.
About 3.80 lakh liter milk is supplied daily by Bhopal Dairy Federation. For this, federation operates 70 milk collection vehicles and 46 distribution vehicles. Arya was informed that after arrival, milk is packaged after going through various tests and processes. Samples of milk packets are checked again before loading on vehicles. There are arrangements to withhold product from distribution if any defect is detected anywhere (Which is not found generally after going through so many processes). Arya also inspected daily report about milk and products.