NPDD: Under the National Programme for Dairy Development scheme, assistance is received for upgrading the processing capacity of dairy plant from 10 TLPD to 50 TLPD. Also, the project envisages improving procurement facilities by installing bulk milk coolers with electronic testing equipment at milk collection centres and providing transport vehicles for transporting milk from collection centres to main dairy plant. The project aims to provide assistance to the existing 14 DCS in the project area and formation of new DCS through which total DCS network will reach to 21 in East Khasi Hills during the project period. The total approved cost of the project is ₹1103.46 lakhs (including ₹1019.32 lakhs as Central Share and ₹84.14 lakhs as Organisational Share). The Government of India had released the First Instalment of the Central Share amounting to ₹3,86,59,000/- (Rupees Three Crores Eighty Six Lakhs Fifty Nine Thousand only), on July 2017 and Second Installement of the Central Share amounting to ₹4,27,77,000/- (Rupees Four Crores Twenty Seven Lakh Seventy Seven Thousand only), on December 2018 to the East Khasi Hills District Co-operative Milk Union through the Public Finance Monitoring System (PFMS).
Meghalaya Milk Mission: The Mission aims at taking the state to a new level by integrating the AMUL model and the community approach. Initially, the Mission will be to assist the present Dairy farmers in increasing their Milk Production and parallelly, encouraging the new farmers in the development of Community Farming based Dairy Cooperative Society and development of Community Ranches. Development of modern infrastructure for Community Farms/Ranches for Breeding, Feed and Fodder, milk production, procurement, processing and cost effective marketing strategy will be done by the Union. The State Level Dairy Development Agency will develop an efficient system for capacity building, monitoring and evaluation, with the objective of achieving genetic up-gradation of the Indigenous breeds. The proposed scheme is to be implemented in East Khasi Hills District, Ri-bhoi District, Jaintia Hills, West and East Garo Hills District with a total financial outlay of ₹21,548.27 lakhs over a period of 4 years(2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21& 2021-22) by extending the assistance to the traditional farmers community. Later, the scheme will also be implemented in other districts as well.
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