True development is not the development of land, or of cows; it is the development of men and women. – Verghese Kurien
“Father of the White Revolution”, Verghese Kurien made India the world’s largest milk producer in 1998. Born on November 26, 1921 at Calicut, Verghese Kurien graduated in Physics from Loyola College, Madras in 1940 and then went on to College of Engineering, Guindy where he obtained his Bachelors in Mechanical engineering.
He founded 30 institutions and as the founding chairman of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), he created Amul brand of dairy products and made them a huge success. He died on September 9, 2012 at the age of 90.
Operation Flood, launched in 1970 by Kurien, was the world’s biggest dairy development program that made India, from a milk-deficient nation to the world’s largest milk producer. It was launched to help farmers direct their own development, placing control of the resources they create in their own hands.
Here’s how the world is remembering him:
Google celebrated the birth anniversary of Verghese Kurien by creating a doodle. It shows Verghese Kurien with a milk can in his hand, next to a buffalo with a looped rope on the ground spelling ‘Google’.
Source :- Time Of India, 26-Nov-2015
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