Banas Dairy
Palanpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay foundation stone of Banas Dairy’s new plant in Varanasi on Thursday in his Lok Sabha constituency ahead of the crucial Uttar Pradesh (UP) assembly elections.
Gujarat’s largest milk union – the Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Producers Union Limited – popularly known as Banas Dairy already runs milk processing plants at Kanpur and Lucknow.
The plant at Karkhiyaon, 18 km away from Varanasi, will be Banas Dairy’s third plant in UP. After it gets commissioned, the plant will generate employment for 10,000 people of seven districts including Banaras, officials said.
The plant will have processing capacity of five lakh litres of milk per day. The project is expected to be commissioned in a year and a half at a cost of Rs 457 crore in 30 acres of land.
Apart from laying the foundation stone, PM will digitally transfer Rs 35.19 crore as dividend for the year 2020-21 in the accounts of 1.75 lakh milk producers, registered as members of Banas Dairy.
Banas Dairy’s chairman Shankar Chaudhary said on Tuesday said that the plant will benefit farmers of 1,000 villages of Varanasi, Jaunpur, Chandauli, Bhadohi, Ghazipur, Mirzapur and Azamgarh districts.
“These farmers will get a price range from Rs 8,000 to Rs 10,000 per month for the milk they procure and provide at the plant. Around 750 people will get direct employment through this project,” he said.
The plant will produce 50,000 litres of ice-cream, 20 tonnes of paneer, 75,000 litres of buttermilk, 50 tonnes of curd, 15,000 litres of lassi and 10,000 kg of Amul sweets per day. The plant will also have a bakery unit apart from a unit to manufacture take-home ration to produce nutritional supplements for women and children.
“Initially, the plant will have capacity of 5 lakh litres which can be expanded to process 10 lakh litres milk products a day,” he said.
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