Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of the Banas Dairy Sankul at a UP State Industrial Development Authority food park in Varanasi on Thursday, and kickstart multiple development initiatives. He will inaugurate and lay the foundation of 22 development projects worth more than Rs 870 crore.
The dairy will be built over 30 acres of land and will be built for about Rs 475 crore. It will be equipped to process five lakh litres of milk a day.
The prime minister will also digitally transfer Rs 35-crore bonuses to the bank accounts of more than 1.7 lakh milk producers associated with Banas Dairy, and lay the foundation stone for a biogas-based electricity generation plant for the Milk Producers Cooperative Union Plant in Ramnagar.
Modi will also launch a website and logo dedicated to the Conformity Assessment Scheme of milk products. The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has developed the scheme with the help of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). The unified logo of the two organisations will serve as the mark of quality for dairy products. It aims to simplify the certification process for the dairy sector.
