CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -GREATER NOIDA: Union minister of home affairs and minister of cooperation Amit Shah on Monday assigned home grown dairy giant – Amul and country’s national dairy board – the National Dairy Development Board - the task to make India self-reliant in manufacturing of dairy machinery.

Detailed explanation-2: -The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is a statutory body set up by an Act of the Parliament of India. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying of the Government of India.

Detailed explanation-3: -To create additional milk processing capacity for increased value addition by producing more dairy products. To bring efficiency in dairy processing plants/producer owned and controlled dairy institutions, thereby enabling optimum value of milk to milk producer farmers and supply of quality milk to consumers.

Detailed explanation-4: -National Dairy Plan-I (NDP-I) Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF)

Detailed explanation-5: -This phase added 30000 new dairy cooperatives, which led to a total of 73,000.