RAJNATH SINGH REVIEWS MILK SHORTAGE
IN DELHI
DMS
TO AUGMENT SUPPLY FROM GUJARAT COOPs TO MEET DEMAND
Union Agriculture
Minister Shri Rajnath Singh today held a high level meeting to
review the milk shortage in the capital city and directed the
officials to take immediate measures so to tackle the milk shortage
and to restore normalcy. The Delhi Milk Scheme (DMS), under the
Ministry of Agriculture has started receiving 50,000 litres of
additional milk per day from Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing
Federation (GCMMF) since yesterday. Shri Rajnath Singh asked DMS
to procure 200,000 litres of milk to meet the demand.
DMS has already stopped
production of full cream milk with effect from 24th
of this month to augment the supply of toned and double toned
milk, a practice which Mother Dairy is also following. Shri Rajnath
Singh suggested the suppliers not to convert liquid milk into
milk products till situation is improved. He hoped that it is
a temporary phase and since rains are good this year, the milk
production will increase in due course of time. The Minister also
asked the State Government to keep a strict check on the figures
furnished by private milk suppliers on their daily milk production
and sale.
Delayed and poor
calving of milch animals by two months, check on production and
sale of synthetic milk in and around Delhi and decline in procurement
of milk at all India level particularly the northern States are
main cause of shortage of milk in Delhi.
