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