Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has told Lok Sabha that the govt has sought a detailed and comprehensive proposal from the Amul(GCMMF) on takeover of Delhi Milk Scheme. GCMMF has to submit the plan giving details of valuation and monetization of DMS pending liabilities, infusion of equity and terms of engagement of employees. Earlier the Ministry of Agriculture that controls DMS had moved a Cabinet proposal for corporatisation of DMS. Vipul Chaudhary, Chairman of GCMMF said earlier ...

The challenger to the might of Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, Raju Shetty remains active after having been released from jail on Friday. Raju has come into prominence by following Pawar’s route of fighting for sugarcane producers’ rights. A session’s court in Pune has ordered enlargement of parliamentarian Raju Shetty who had been arrested for inciting the sugarcane farmers in western Maharashtra to violence. The court also released some of his followers. The sugarcane ...

Amul bid to run Delhi Milk Supply (DMS) has met with a temporary roadblock with the govt saying that it could be done only after the corporatization of the DMS. This was one of the many new ventures, the new Chairman Vipul Chaudhary has plunged himself into. Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said the central govt would soon decide whether it should allow the beleaguered Delhi Milk Scheme to be run by Amul. The latter has been interested in taking over the DMS and managing it on ...

The National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India Limited had a miraculous turnaround in the year 2008 as it almost touched the bottom in the previous year. The mistakes of past had come to overwhelm the apex consumer cooperative federation when it almost went on the verge of becoming bust. NCCF is the apex federation of the consumer cooperatives in the country. Established in 1965 and administered under the Multi State Cooperative Societies Act 2002, it began its jounrney with noble ...